Well I have had a 6 month dry spell. I have completely run
out of ideas
and most of the FOTD recently have not lent themselves to good
animations. (my fault, not yours Jim!). I was ready to toss
all of this,
even got rid of a couple of my old systems during winter
house cleaning
and a bit of intoxicated depressed rage. I even stopped
reading the
fractint emails, and I don't know what to make of this
Sebastian dude
who talks funny .....
Yes I was a trailblazer earlier in the century but I can't
hold a candle
to some of the animations coming out now with 3D/4D stuff,
mandelbulbs,
32 bit software / CUDA etc. And the UFVP (celebrating it's 10th
birthday) had achieved it's primary goal with the completion
of Universe
#6 last year, so why not just hang it up!? All good things
come to an
end, right? :(
But alas, I couldn't part with it all just yet.
Poking around one last time something about FOTD Nov 30,
2011 caught my
eye - maybe it was the colors?
So zooming around in and out I saw many pretty pictures, and
I thought a
zoom animation might look good.
It does.
Nothing definitely is something. In fact, I recall a paper I
read
recently (physics) which describes a mathematical theory in
which
everything (ie., the entire universe) can theoretically
spontaneously
arise from nothing. Go figure.
I renamed it "Genesis" cause it kinda looks like cosmic
strings ("string
theory") at the start and then a little planet forms and has
all this
complexity .... and it keeps on going and going ...
Just shy of 3 minutes, and 49 Meg for download. Enjoy!
http://www.fractal-animation. net/vid/genesis.zip
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I wonder - could you animate a walk around the edge of the
Mandelbrot set?
Or maybe a low-flying helicopter flight along the coastline of the
Mandelbrot?
Had fun watching your video - lots of feeling like I was traveling
along a curve. Converted it to MP4 using ffmpeg. What does doing
this kind of thing for fun on Saturday night say about me? ;-)