Carl's Stuff

A website for the various projects and interests I have


More Fractal Videos - 10/15/2011

I fixed a bug in my fractal program where convergent regions ( the solid black areas ) would have aliased borders where divergent regions ( the colorful areas ) would be antialiased. In fixing this bug, the quality of images with lots of convergence started looking a lot better. It was enough so that I decided to re generated the video from my previous post. The render is very high quality (60 frames per second rather 30) and high resolution (1920 x 1200). Make sure to watch the video in full screen!

I am disappointed about the video not playing properly in Firefox. The only supported codec in Firefox is very poor so I didn't think it would do this video justice. Try playing this in Chrome / IE9 / most mobile devices.

Fractal Videos - 10/12/2011

I have been working on some fractal videos. These two videos below are generated are Julia Fractals with varying degrees of escape values.



The video is below is similar to the one above, but its all done so that it looks like the profile of a fractal. The escape value (how many iterations it tries before giving up) is set to very low which is why most of the page is black. I think it looks pretty cool still, along with the different music. Also this video is longer so that you can see the transititions more clearly.



If people like these videos, I can release the source code I used to make them. Its a multithreaded (pthreads) C program I wrote for fun.