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!!

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