. 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 .