Like in a dream II

Fractal animation made with Mandelbulb3D. I originally designed it for Bryan Alvarez from UC Berkeley, for a TEDx talk about his Human Atlas project, to illustrate his initial dream about the beauty of living systems. This one is an enhanced version. This is a hybrid Julia fractal where many parameters are being animated: the fractal paramaters themselves, the Julia seed, the colors, and of course the camera position. For more details about 3D fractals and to download the Mandelbulb3D software, visit fractalforums.com.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKknJvZIn24&feature=related

Mandelbrot fractal deep zoom 6 2^678

This is the deepest zoom I've done so far and took around 30 hours of rendering.
Also, I decided to add a cool effect to the zoom giving it almost a 3d look which I think looks really cool, at least until near the end where the fractal becomes extremely complex, but still looks better than without the effect.
http://youtu.be/yFSemaF4dLs

Colours From Nowhere - Psychedelic Fractal Art

This is a collection of fractals I generated using Stephen Fergusons awesome freeware program Tierazon.
'Colours From Nowhere' is the title of the audio track by Orbital.
I thought it suited the visuals well.
Hope you enjoy my first foray into fractal filmmaking.
Steve
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtZhWgm3n0s&feature=related

We occupy a rather obscure, sparsely populated, place in the cosmos. We are about two-thirds of the way out on one of the spiral arms of a magnificent galaxy we call the milky way. This galaxy has a diameter of 100,000 light years and if we lived closer in towards the center, the day- and night-time skies would be a blazing, dazzling glory of swirling nebulas and stars more brilliant than baskets of the finest jewels strewn across black velvet.

Also, there are places in the universe where groups of galaxies swirl and dance in close proximity (where galaxies are concerned, close proximity is on the order of hundreds of thousands of light years apart). In such neighborhoods, we would be treated to a sky emblazoned with multicolored pinwheels made from hundreds of billions of stars.

This is not fantasy. Such places exist. We can see them through our telescopes. When we see a hundred billion stars or beautiful swirling nebulas created from titanic stellar cataclysms, or just our own star, the sun, we are witnessing the Forge of Creation. In a direct, very real, and personal way, we are witnessing the divine alchemy of the transmutation of elements. The entire periodic table is being created as we watch. This is synonymous with the statement The universe is being created as we watch. Every element you see on this planet was made this way. Every element that comprises your body was forged by the fabric of life inside stars. You are divine not as a matter of theological speculation but rather you are divine by virtue of the transformative act of creation that forged you...

The Glass of Silent Time

This is a video about fractal Skrying otherwise known as crystal ball gazing. The term Skrying comes from the old English word descry meaning to see or to observe. Skrying has come to be associated with clairvoyance. Originally, however, crystal balls were used as an aid to enhance vision. I really wanted to use Fractal Skrying as the title of my video but since only one out of one thousand knows what it means, I would have been guaranteeing my own anonymity.
Crystal balls work because of a property known as the index of refraction The index of refraction is a measure of how much the speed of light is reduced as it passes through a medium such as crystal, diamond, emerald, etc. It is unique for each substance and has historically been used (by me for example) as a tool in analytical chemistry. This video is called The Glass of Silent Time because (1) I think it sounds cool, and (2) Since light speed and time are inextricably linked, crystal balls or a glass full of water for that matter, silently reduce time, hence the title. The vast number of truly monumental events that occur in our immediate environment without our conscious awareness is of and by itself a clear expression of the divine nature of the cosmos. We do not need metaphysical explanations; the physical ones are sufficiently miraculous unto themselves.

Crystal has an index of refraction of 2.0. The crystal ball I use in my video, however, is a magical one because I can vary the index of refraction to view the exact place and magnification I choose. This has a specific advantage over the conventional zoom function because it enables simultaneous viewing of the base fractal plus the skryed region. In this way, a viewer can see that the enhanced region really is present in the fractal being viewed ... / abysimus on Youtube /