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One of the most visually interesting thing to do with fractals is a real-time
zoom into an area of the fractal. That is, simulate zooming into
an area of the fractal set from the top level. Because one can zoom
infinitely into fractal, one could, in theory, zoom into a fractal forever.
However, most fractal generators have a limited amount of precision (ie.
how big, or little a number can be). This limit also caps how far
the software can zoom into a fractal. Here are some pre computed
videos of fractal zooms. The longest zoom possible with the software
I've written is just over 30 seconds.
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Zoom movie
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Credits:
Music by Dave Guernsey
Editing by Andrew Que
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Play time :
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aprox. 42 seconds |
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Half size mono
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Full size stereo
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320x240
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640x480
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2.88 MB
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12.1 MB
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64kbit/sec mono
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128kbit/sec stereo
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MPEG-4/MP3
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MPEG-4/MP3
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Download
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My first attempt at putting together a Fractal zoom movie.
Contains a few Fractal zooms mixed together and set to music.
This is my test run at seeing how well I could put together
such composition. Now that is this complete, I have begun work on
a 4 minute movie.
The music for this movie is an original peace composed
and performed by David
"Guy" Guernsey. The music is a clip from "Shades of a Different Meaning"
and part of Guy's solo works done under the name "Thorn Crown Empire".
It was recorded at the Garage
Studio's "Area 40" and mixed by Andrew Que. |
| Zoom 1 |
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Play time :
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aprox. 31 seconds |
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Low quality
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160x120
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1.55 MB
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MPEG-1
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| Zoom 2 |
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Play time :
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aprox. 17 seconds |
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Medium quality
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Low quality
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160x120
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320x240
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4.59 MB
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2.66 MB
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MPEG-1
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MPEG-1
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| Zoom 3 |
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Play time :
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aprox. 37 seconds |
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High quality
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Medium quality
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640x480
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320x240
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5.70 MB
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1.45 MB
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MPEG-4
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MPEG-4
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Download
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Download
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The first non 320x240 zoom I tried. It took sevral hours
(less than 6) to render and 656 MB of space. |
| Zoom 7 |
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Play time :
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aprox. 25 seconds |
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High quality
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Medium quality
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640x480
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320x240
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8.10 MB
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2.87 MB
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MPEG-4
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MPEG-4
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This zoom was converted to MPEG at very high quality and is
one of the best zoom I have to date. Due to the quality, the movies
are larger. |
| Zoom 16 |
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Play time :
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aprox. 32 seconds |
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High quality
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Medium quality
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640x480
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320x240
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3.83 MB
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0.99 MB
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MPEG-4
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MPEG-4
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Download
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Download
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Created with a latter version of my Fractal software-- the
zoom is now centered. |
Creating the zooms here is a 3 stage process. First, a
location of the fractal to zoom into is picked out and a zoom file is created.
Then, the zoom file is translated into an .AVI file. Finally, the
.AVI file is converted into an MPEG movie. The first two steps are
done using my software. The MPEG movies ether MPEG-1 or MPEG-4 (also
called as DivX). MPEG-1 conversation was done with
AVI2MGP1
written by John Schlichther. The MPEG-4 conversation is a two part
process. The AVI to MPEG-2 conversion was done with TMPGEnc
written by Hiroyuki Hori. The MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 conversion was done
with FlasKMPEG by Alberto Vigata.
Codecs for MPEG-4 are available here.
The Fractal movies were assembled in Adobe Premier.
Some animation was done using Jasc Animation Shop. |
