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Saturday, June 25, 2011

The True Cave of Lost Secrets, and A Dream of Death

I asked some of the guys at Fractal forums what they thought of why my Cave of Secrets image from the previous post looked so different from the original one on Daniel White's site, and Jesse, the creator of Mandelbulb 3D himself, gave me the answer: I was using the default Mandelbulb that loads when you open the program, but the original Cave of Secrets was rendered with a slightly different variation of the formula, known to me simply as the "CosinePow8" (found under the first "3D" tab in the formulas window.)

So I rendered it up, found the Cave, and tried to make it look exactly like the original. I'm zoomed a bit closer, the colouring is really not right, and somehow the original has more detail, but here is my result:

My version of the Cave of Lost Secrets by Daniel White. Click to enlarge.

The detail is really nothing like the original and I'm wondering -why- ? ... If someone knows of a setting to increase detail, please let me know. I've tried several things to no avail. But won't give up!

Next, my second attempt at 3D fractal art, "A Dream of Death" :


What do you all think? :) I'm very proud. Comments below will be greatly appreciated. I'll get to a "Mandelbulb 3D for beginners" Tutorial soon :) ... But right now, I'm really having fun just playing around.
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3 comments:

  1. EmilyJune 26, 2011 at 4:35 PM

    A Dream of Death is really cool! I can see demon faces lurking in there.

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  2. Dan WJune 26, 2011 at 10:33 PM

    Heh, I thought that was really mine at first! Good job trying to get close to it. I think I used orthographic perspective in the original, so the equivalent in other mandelbulb programs would be to move the camera really far back.

    You might also try going for a super high resolution, and increasing the iterations for more detail maybe?

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  3. UnknownJune 27, 2011 at 11:12 AM

    Wow, hi Daniel! It's an honour to 'meet' you. I've spent hours on Skytopia reading about your initial adventures. It's partly all because of your efforts that we now have such beautiful 3D fractals to play with, so thank you!

    I have actually tried more iterations to no affect :/ ... But I have yet to really play around with the different calculation settings Mandelbulb has to offer. I'll play around with them and then use my findings in a blogpost to add to my Tutorial I'm making.

    Thanks for commenting and looking forward to future interaction!

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