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The Formula

Published on 29 March 2010

The Formula

Music by The Formula on hohumrecords.com

The entire film is created from two sequences of continuously morphing Mandelbulb fractals.
The rendering was made using a plugin I am developing for After Effects.
More news on that will follow soon...

  Last updated: 29 March 2010

27 Comments

  • Mr.doob commented at 30 March 2010 at 02:17

    Sublime. Looking forward to your second film :)

  • Fred commented at 30 March 2010 at 03:22

    Simply marvelous, thanks for sharing. Strangely, I wouldn't have come across this if I hadn't been using some of your freeware goodies on picnik and done a search for more from you, then discovered I could follow you on Twitter.
    Thank you for all the great stuff you give to us, and continued success !

  • Alexander commented at 30 March 2010 at 05:50

    I like that work very match. Especially the mood change at 2:15

    Is it possible to get rid of noise in some parts of fractal?
    Almost all Mandelbulb renderings have some tracing artifacts. Here is the cleanest one I've seen so far: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81MjsFM8apc

    Thank you for your work!

  • Jonathan Wolfe commented at 30 March 2010 at 07:00

    Fantastic work, Tom! Beautiful lighting and movement - really awesome job!
    It makes me wish I had AfterEffects CS4 instead of just 3, so I could use your plugin. Well, at least I can share your elegant art with others, while I keep cranking out my Mandelbulbs in UltraFractal...

  • simppa commented at 30 March 2010 at 08:34

    Extremely cool! Sweet atmosphere and mood.

  • David Lenaerts commented at 30 March 2010 at 09:09

    Absolutely incredible work, Tom! Found myself staring at the screen mesmerized the entire time.
    Would love to see more, of course ;)

  • Pierluigi Pesenti commented at 30 March 2010 at 09:28

    Awesome. 3D fractals are so fascinating. You almost forget about the recursive thing when you just look at it, it just looks a complex displacement texture, but then the camera start flying back, and you can admire the recursion. Keep going on.

  • Mikael Christensen (Syntopia) commented at 30 March 2010 at 09:28

    As always very impressive, Tom! In particular the morph starting around 2:20 - where everything seems to align nicely before zooming out.

  • zenbullets commented at 30 March 2010 at 10:21

    That is some sexy maths. Always nice to see fractals rendered without recourse to dayglo and ibiza-trance.

  • The Formula commented at 30 March 2010 at 13:14

    An incredible peice of work Tom....respect and well done.

    L.

  • Manny Lorenzo commented at 30 March 2010 at 14:31

    Tom,

    This is an absolutely incredible art piece. Your genius really shows. I got goose bumps watching it.

    Thanks,

    manny

  • Lucas Swick commented at 30 March 2010 at 17:59

    I find this particularly fascinating and love the camera movements. Out of curiosity, what was your old machine (the one that you mentioned would just 'give up') specced at?

    Thanks,

    Lucas

  • My Mate Dave commented at 30 March 2010 at 18:36

    Amazing work, love the music also.

  • Diego commented at 30 March 2010 at 19:19

    Great work!! I miss a bit colour variation, but I love the deep of field, the morphings and the camera.
    That seems to be a really nice AE plugin to play with!!

    Congrats man

  • ktx commented at 30 March 2010 at 19:44

    Great piece ! I appreciate your efforts.
    I think this would work as an opening title for a dark sci-fi movie just well.

  • Susan Fields commented at 30 March 2010 at 22:05

    The music and the animations took me somewhere else...this is a lovely piece of work....more pleeeassee! x

  • Clive commented at 30 March 2010 at 22:12

    The music & images really compliment eachother well....

    It also reminds me of cauliflower which is always a good thing.

    Great stuff....

  • Tim Fallon commented at 31 March 2010 at 10:23

    Next level shit!

  • Daniel commented at 5 April 2010 at 03:15

    I loved this! The atmosphere was always intense, and I found it pretty scary too! Also, the music was well chosen, and synced to the graphics (which I always like).

    Congrats, can't wait for another...

  • Marc commented at 15 May 2010 at 21:03

    Amazingly beautiful work. Congratulations. I look forward to more.

  • Richard commented at 21 May 2010 at 03:41

    AMAZING!!!!!!!
    (It is Mandelbrot though)

  • midj commented at 25 June 2010 at 05:04

    a hugh film and work my friends, well done

  • RussellGlenn commented at 27 June 2010 at 15:38

    Somewhere back in time I found two ways to generalize the M-set to 3-D. The images here, on my half-assed website, were rendered years ago:
    http://www.ixitol.com/3D_M_Sets/
    The gray scale images I did in Fractint; the others are POVRay by Paul Bourke at
    http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/fractals/
    http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/fractals/realmset/
    http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/fractals/triternion/
    I'd love to see what you Mandelbulb guys could do with these formulas...

  • THE FORMULA commented at 22 September 2010 at 02:12

    This Tom...is still an INCREDIBLE piece of work....it would be great to do another one...if you have anything I can edit together before november launch...we should do it....hope your well.

    best

    Laurie

  • Ray Ban Cats commented at 5 March 2011 at 05:15

    Seriously, this is epic! It's like a journey through another universe. Love it!

  • web design in kent commented at 24 May 2011 at 20:04

    COOLLL!!!!!!

    Really like to do that my self.

  • Orfebre Martin commented at 30 June 2011 at 16:27

    I think this would work as an opening title for a dark sci-fi movie just well!!