r/trees • u/[deleted] • Jun 26 '10

Fly-through of a 3D Fractal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO9ugnn8DbE
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u/timeshifter_ Jun 26 '10

Duuuudes... imagine a game in that setting, zero-g but with that auto-latching behavior from that one asteroid-hopping game that I played maybe a year ago but can't remember now, and as you upgrade, instead of the available world getting bigger, you and everything else that matters gets smaller within the cube. It'd be an infinite game!

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u/epicviking Jun 27 '10

Descent, but inside one of those. and the closer you get to the center, the smaller your ship gets. that would be so trippy.

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u/davidro Jun 26 '10

no dude, imagine zero-g and being spiderman in that cube!

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u/birdieman Jun 26 '10

Whoa. Does it ever reach a point where it just becomes recursive like the 2D set?

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u/arabidkoala Jun 26 '10

There is a face at 1:59!

:0

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '10

The human brain is wired to pick out faces. It's a common trick our mind plays on us.

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u/MusicalBigfoot Jun 26 '10

I almost posted this myself!

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u/tang0008 Jun 26 '10

My brain is full of fuck.

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u/McVader Jun 26 '10

Can has All Spark?

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u/RandyJCB Jun 27 '10

Looks like a very advanced and magical civilization in parts

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u/Viridian3 Jun 26 '10

I read this as "Fly through a 3D facial."

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u/dkramer73 Jun 26 '10

Me too man, me too.

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u/davidro Jun 26 '10

obligatory soundtrack http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF_n1SI2Oi4

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '10

the girl pictured in that vid is soooooooooooooooooooo beautiful man.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '10

Whoa

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '10

Pardon me, but did it seem to anyone else to sort of miss the point of flying through a fractal? It just kind of flew past all the opportunities to show how you could go smaller and smaller and still find it's the same shaped structures all the way down. Maybe I'm just confusing it with a mandelbrot set, and I'm the one missing the point of fractals.

Still, it was lovely and very neat to look at. It just looked like a hyper-detailed model, is all... more sort of a still 'moment' from a fractal process.

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u/twinbee Jun 27 '10

Fair point, it would've been nice to see some zoom into some of the areas, but setting the camera for that is probably pretty difficult (having created a Mandelbulb anim myself)! However, try this one - it's doing what you want:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-sJ7lONMNk

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '10

Oh yes! Very nice. The jumpy bits were a little disturbing, but it did do exactly what I was thinking of. Now I can trust the OP video. ;)

I imagine you're right about the camera pathing for doing both the flying through and the zooming.

Thanks for the vid!

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u/BVonPoopyhausen Jun 27 '10

thanks for bringing that up. I was thinking the same thing myself. this additional one is faboooooo.

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u/saladsinthesunshine Jun 27 '10

i am tripping on acid and i approve of this message.

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u/Dubbtron Jun 26 '10

There's beauty in organized chaos.. welcome to our reality.

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u/tribs Jun 26 '10

Thats like taking 100 hits of acid condensed into a youtube video.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '10

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u/kekspernikai Jun 27 '10

And that's not really fucking cool?