Vimeo version (13m.44s)
What can I say? how about the bare facts.
I will let you make up your mind about the animation itself and hope you leave a comment.
so here are the facts…
Two days to set up, and then six months to render, resulted in around forty 1.9GB uncompressed anti-aliased x 4 .AVI files. I added watermarking, fx and time remapping, before multi-pass encoding the 80GB video in h264 (32,768 kbit/sec) and the audio in AAC.
The final product available for instant download is a high quality
13m44s 1.77 GB (1,903,726,592 bytes) .MP4
then I compressed again to a still very watchable 1GB (10,000 kbit/sec) for vimeo.
The final magnification of the mandelbrot fractal is 6.066e+228 (2^760)
want some perspective?
here is a little chart that shows you how large the image of the fractal would be – after the given magnification.
1E6 Vancouver Island
1E9 Jupiter’s radius
1E12 Earth’s orbit
1E18 distance to Alpha Centauri
1E21 Milky Way galaxy
1E30 large doesn’t cover it!
1E42 size of proton to the universe
1E228 so big it hurts…but we did it!
For the record, 1 to 6e228 is like expanding a proton to 70000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000 times the size of the visible universe. (i.e. mindrape)
(Proton has 1 femtometer diameter, universe has 93 billion light year diameter)
I remapped the video from this and remixed another shorter audio track to create A 10 minute version for youtube.
youtube version (10m.00s)
the audio really is something special on this.
A decent stereo/ headphones are seriously recommended
for this deep tech house sound.
a two track mix by yours truly – teamfresh.
track one is tonu su tonu
by ivan masa (pablo rez remix)
Quote
“Pablo Rez surprised us with this strong tech house remix. A track you almost can drop any where, any time”
track two is soul survivor
by solar brothers ft sherry dyanne (moog mix)
Quote
“This version will fit you well, if you’re into the current tech-house sound that is. Expect thick and thumpy synths and basslines. Appropriate for later progress in the evening as well as taking it down a notch, whilst sustaining the energy level. You also want to play this, to make people start bouncing if they’re reluctant somehow”
If you were actually traveling into the fractal, you would be moving faster than the speed of light.
location on the complex plane.
Real number:
-1.768,573,656,315,270,993,281,
742,915,329,544,712,934,120,053,405,549,882,
337,511,135,282,776,553,364,635,382,011,977,
933,536,332,198,647,808,795,874,576,643,230,
034,448,609,820,608,458,844,529,169,083,285,
379,260,833,581,131,961,323,480,667,495,949,
838,043,253,626,912,240,448,884,745,364,662,
832,495,906,454,3
imaginary number:
-0.000,964,296,851,358,280,000,176,242,720,
373,819,448,274,776,122,656,563,565,285,783,
153,307,047,554,366,655,893,028,615,382,795,
071,670,082,888,793,257,893,297,692,452,344,
749,770,824,889,473,425,648,018,389,868,316,
458,205,554,184,217,181,589,930,525,084,269,
263,834,905,711,879,329,676,832,512,425,574,
656,3
The final product for download is the high quality
13m44s 1.77 GB (1,903,726,592 bytes) .MP4
Please comment.
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Enjoy!
oceans of love
teamfresh
completely awesome. My 1st hypercard drawing program was a mandelbrot set in black & white..
1E228 is so totally mindblowing, it really puts my effort in some dire perspective!
Thanks!
OMG!
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No, really.
OMG!!!
Sometimes people say OMG to mean gosh, or wow, or even drat. That’s not the version I’m using.
This is the OMG that only applies when the pieces of your brain are scattered across the room after your head exploded from the sheer awesomeness of what you’ve just seen.
Oh! My! God!
I’m not sure I’ll be able to see right for a while, and I need to watch it all again. Several times.
How on earth did you pick your target?
And I assume that last detail of it resolving to the classic mandelbrot shape was an edit? It’d be just too perfect if that shape was what was found at the bottom of that tunnel. (If it is, part of me wants to follow the same relative point into it for another 10^228 times zoom.
You rock!
Well I’m glad you like the animation. What can I say? Well let me start by saying that the last detail of it resolving to the classic mandelbrot shape was not an edit. That shape is at the end of that tunnel. The final location + magnification are written in the post for anyone who wishes to compute it for themselves
They might need a lil while though…. as at that depth it took around a week, just to render that final frame
Thanks for saying we rock,
its all for you….
Thanks for sharing this incredible Animation. I downloaded the 1.8 GB version
I’m a Mandelbrot junkie from way back. The first MFC app in C++ I ever wrote was a Mandelbrot set program. I used double-precision floating point arithmetic, but you could only zoom in so far before you ran out of precision, and all you got was pixelated blocks !! I’m sure there are smarter algorithms for doing the arithmetic (eg using integers etc), but the maths does my head in …
As for the music, I would prefer some sort of epic metal soundtrack, but that is just personal taste I guess. I guess anything that sounds “cosmic” would be appropriate, though … which you have done.
Well done. I’m think I’m going to tweet links to your site for a while … hope you don’t mind.
Cheers,
Judd
Amazing video … I remember making Mandlebrot programs 25 years ago, but my visualizations were nothing like this !!
As Chaos Crafter asked “How did you pick your target?” Did you adjust your course as you went in? (Or more generally, how did you pick your trajectory?)
What do you mean by “at the end of that tunnel”?
It is so amazing that a simple iterated function can yield such beauty and complexity.
You have created a real thing of beauty, a classic. Thank you.
Beautiful and amazing. Thanks.
@Judd – Thanks for downloading, (and tweeting!) you are helping to bring fractals to the people
Metal is not something i ever expected to put to fractals but it would be epic! I will be working on a few remixes of this animation for the next little while. The point i’m getting to is if you want to create your own 13m.44s mix/soundtrack – As I have the raw files still handy then I can knock it together with the animation for you – and then sort you out a free download link 
. If your interested just send me mail at
teamfresh@hd-fractals.com
@Ken – I picked my target by visualizing ahead. I know what certain areas of the set look like, and I try to combine then all into the one animation. The Mandelbrot set has an infinite amount of smaller sets within its boundaries. Around each set is a pattern. That pattern changes depending on what area of the set you magnify. The deeper the smaller set is, the more detailed and complex that pattern becomes. So the “at the end of that tunnel” that I speak of, is the detailed and complex pattern that is found around the small set seen at the end of the animation. Although maybe you know already that really, there is no end to that tunnel – as you can magnify the set infinitely. But I figured I better stop there, as at that point it was taking a week to render one frame. I’m so glad you like the animation – after all it was made for you.
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Awesome work.
It was especially fun to watch the synopsis of the spiral part as it got compressed towards the singularity of the mini-m. I really liked the effect at the end of the light coming out of the M… rendering those final frames had to be seriously hairy.
Thanks – It means a lot coming from you
The end was the long bit to render, so I did that first. It took about a month for the final minute – and a week for the very last frame alone!
I was not sure about the light at the end, I had quite a few lights i was “playing around with” at the start of post pro but in the end I just kept the last light on!
and yes the spiral is cool
must do even more next time 
fantastic work… but was it really necessary to include “team fresh” in the audio? sort of breaks the mood… made me think I was watching a commercial instead of having the awesome experience you no doubt want people to have. I’ll just watch with my own music, I guess.
Many DJ’s play an ident over their mixes – not everyone is a fan, but if you felt strongly enough to write a post raising the issue – then I commend you – and will bear this in mind for future productions…
Wow this is incredible! I’m gonna project this on the wall at our next music fest. Go team fresh!
that’s what I like to hear!! have a good one
What computing power did you use for this? Can you elaborate on how many computers you used, what type, whether this was a networked/grid system??
AWESOME WORK!
As a DJ/VJ, and party promoter, I love this kind of stuff.
Glad you like the animation. The exact details are a secret, but I do review all software I use in the software section…
Mind. Blown.
I’m afraid to ask this, but just how many calculation iterations were being done at the end of that? A few million?
My only major complaint is the rather bland, repetitive pallet.
20 million iterations for the last frame – sorry about the palette – I cant please everyone….
Similar to lazyburners’ comment:
Your software page lists software that can only utilize the multi-core power of a single desktop (I’m not familiar with these packages, so I’m assuming I’m reading their “features” properly).
Have you ever considered writing — or finding someone to write — some custom software to take advantage of highly parallel distributed systems and potentially lower your “6 months” rendering time to something much more reasonable?
That said, this is pretty amazing and looks absolutely wonderful! Very well done.
Thanks for your interest – this topic has indeed been discussed at length in the fractal forums, and it can be done, and in many ways. in fact, if you cant afford the price of using a distributed server network – Ultra fractal comes with a server program you can install on other computers so that you can network them together to crunch the numbers quicker….
This animation only took six months because I generally end up rendering multiple animations at the same time…..
awesome
Can i assume that where we are looking at any given moment and the color pallet assigned to that moment are the only variables that you assign?
that is correct – and the light shining at the end was added after the original render was completed.
wow!
great movie! i loved everything!
it even had a twist ending!
R.I.P.
A sad time for all maths and fractal fans all over the world
the world will miss him but he will never be forgotten
I’ve been looking at M. sets for more time than I care to remember (getting quite old now) but never seen anything this awesome before. Superb achievment guys. Please keep on doing it! Thanks
Wow! I got this site from a friend on Facebook. – this is amazing. I have NO idea what a Mandlebrot set is, or fratals, or iterations are! But I read your description and all of the comments. So, let me just say this is amazing and by the time is was over, I felt hypnotized and back in the 1960′s but very high tech!
Thanks for doing what you do!!
Kay Airola
Tangerine Dream makes an even better soundtrack. I put on Cloudburst Flight and started tripping balls.
Great motherfucker!!! How the hell did you find the Julia set in the middle of the movie?=)) (‘cuz I know that in the very middle of a Julia set sits an extremely small minibrot… ALWAYS)
There’s 3d at the middle of the movie?
LOL it seems
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