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Published: 2011-01-27 15:35:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 34458; Favourites: 773; Downloads: 0
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I just found out that my Fractal Wasp Troll image was one of the 25 selected for Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Exhibition 2011. www.fractalartcontests.com/201…He also won fractalforums.com:s annual fractal art contest 2011 for me: www.fractalforums.com/fractalf…
Almost scared myself when he popped out from the DOF in Photoshop... Do not dare to zoom any closer...
As I said before, this is a unrestrained crazy mix of bulbs and boxes but I guess this chaos is needed to create these kind of "real world" organic creatures.
FULL VIEW PLEASE!
Mandelbulb 3D, DOF effects done in Photoshop
3D printed version available in my shop at Shapeways: www.shapeways.com/shops/mandel…
Do not miss 'Pupal Metamorphosis of Queen Cleopatra' - Found in the same fractal:
One of my pieces for the Exhibition at Värmlands Museum:
EXHIBITION - BEYOND THE INFINITE*
Exhibition @ Värmlands museum, Sweden.
19th of may - 2nd October 2012
Link to the museum site about the exhibition: http://www.varmlandsmuseum.se/1/1.0.1.0/663/1/
:iconmandelwerk: Johan Andersson aka MANDELWERK & :iconbib993: Jérémie Brunet aka bib993
I am happy to announce my first real life 3D fractal art exhibition.
So all of you who happen to pass the city of Karlstad during this period has the chance to see mine and Jérémie:s works as big prints.
The museum has also arranged with a number of natural fractals, a large Sierpinski pyramid, videos and more.
My works at the exhibition:
Basket of bread - 81x81 cm
Mathematicians framed by their own formulas - 135 x 108 cm
Quantum mechanic clockwork of the cosmic calendar - 108 x 108 cm
Perfectly framed Lacemaker - 80 x 60 cm
Mollusk of Love - 60 x 80 cm
Check out my 3D printed Sculptures and Jewelry at Shapeways!
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Glad to hear that Néstor, so did I
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can i ask you something?
Do you have to know elevated maths to create this things?
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No problem Néstor, and the answer is no, you do not need to understand the maths.
It takes a lot of patience though, and it helps to have some knowledge of what a mandelbulb, amazing box (mandelbox), menger sponge is, lots of basic info about this in the links in my journal!
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aah good!
what is your formation btw?? art?
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I have been painting oils for many years, but my education is technical, and I work with computers on a magazine.
And yours?
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oposite xDD
I've studied fine arts but I love computers and all that can be done with them xD
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That is just insane. Beautiful work!!!!
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The living fractal, thanks again!!
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Shoot some holes, blow some minds...
Wow
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this is blowing my mind ON EVERY SCALE\
hahahahahahahahahaha
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gorgeous netherworlds behind your brain
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I knew you'll find out
Thank you Fabio!
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this is pretty amazing. I'm really impressed what can be done with fractals.. especially mandelbulb seems to be a hell of a program 
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These new 3D hybrids amazes me every day
Thank you Eric!
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Good lord that's amazing. One of the best i've ever seen!
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Thank you Jon!, it is one of my own favorites...
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It looks like a great monster with horns - I'm not sure if that will make sense to anyone else!
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It does for me, that is why I called it a "troll", but maybe no one else sees it but us?
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Actually, I was wanting to ask, but how are you getting the colour depth with your images? It's really working well.
Do you render with different passes, depth passes etc. Or is fractal rendering a different beast (pun
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This is a hard question to answer, I have no experience in (modern) 3D apps, I did some tries in Maya and Bryce a long time ago, but I think it is a combination of the app you are working with and what you do with the outcome.
I try to check if I have nice highlights and shadows when I do the render (which is essential in all imaging, photo or whatever) if I do not get it 100% right I have the chance to get it better in Photoshop, I work with digital images, and the only way to learn is to study digital images the whole way, colorspaces, RGB to CMYK...
I have to start a FAQ here
Saved this now as my first FAQ...
Do not know what you mean about different passes, the depth is possible to save after the render as the z buffer, I use that a lot, for fog or depth blur.
That is all for now.. good night
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I think I've been a little foolish here, I kept thinking that your work was created in a 3D package just because it has so much detail and depth.
Thank you for answering, I'm pretty curious about it all - so I appreciate the information. You should contemplate making a tutorial, it could be quite inriguing for enquiring minds!
Your message reminded me of Bryce. I played around with the software when I was much younger, but I never made anything good with it, I think I was too young to understand it properly!
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What a misunderstanding... Sorry Naomi, I think I have been pretty clear, mentioning Mandelbulb 3D and fractals a lot...
I have too little time to make tutorials, but there are some who has done tuts for MB3D, HalTenny here on DA is one of them...
I never got anything out of Bryce either, I forgot to mention Studio Strata Pro, I did some decent renders with that app, must see if I still have them
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excellent piece, love the madness and the organic reality conveyed by the forms
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You got it, thanks very much TeT!!!!
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O.O
that's so cool XD
what program do u use to make 3D fractals like this? and do u know where i can download it?
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Thank you Darkxraven!
I use Mandelbulb 3D, links in my journal!
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Amazing !
How long have you spent to make this image ?
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Thank you Ryan!
It took about 6 hours to render (it is a fractal...
Took months to find it though.
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hey hey 
your work has been selected in the categorie
Best of Fractal & Mandelbulb January 2011
and will be featured for one month now
with friendly regards
your Co-Founder of #ExtremeDetail
Desse
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Thank you very much Destro-Desse!
I must say it is the first time I am not extremely surprised for a feature like this, this is definitely my own favorite...
The finding of an unexpected beast in a fractal...
BTW; Where is the feature, I cannot find it... :/
Thanks thanks thanks! 
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directly on the frontpage of the gallery
it will apear random, but you can see it right here [link] (second page)
this time there are really a lot artworks featured
but it's a good collection from over 650 submissions
and only mamber stuff
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Allright! Page 8 with my settings, a lot of artworks, but all great stuff!
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jup, it was a hard selection this time and i really don't know anymore which i should remove now
they are all awesome
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Thats the problem when you have too many talented members
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It sure is... I am trying to do a very big render of this one now...
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I'm curious. What image size in pixels do you use to generate an image the size of your DevID? Do you have a printer that big or do you use a print service? What kind of cost do you incur for a print that big?
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Hello Ross, the original image of the Dev ID is 42308 x 23238 pixels.
I used a print service, here is a snippet of an answer I gave on fractalforums:
Sadly the kind of canvas printing I got the chance to get a good price for (Full price about 55 £ per square meter) only uses a resolution of 100 dpi, and my original has pixels enough for this print size (4 x 2 meters) in 300 dpi... even if the rendering technique I had back then has a bit too few details to really be much better than in 100 dpi, I did get som modifications, so now I have made an even bigger, more detailed image of a zoom of the bulb (took about a month to render the parts), now looking for companys that prints 300 dpi
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Thanks Johan. That is a lot of pixels! With that kind of generation time, deciding which image to generate must be agonizing.
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I was using Subblues Pixelbender script for my original mandelbulbs, it was much quicker than MB3D...
...and I was a bit more whacko @ that time I guess
You did check it out, the final render? [link]
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Yes, you pointed me to that link once before. It is an impressive image and a very nice presentation. I made a few 9,000x9,000 images oversampled at 3x3 (27,000x27,000 sample points) but I was burning up my hardware
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Glad you like em!
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really impressive bulbage! Totally reminds me of Dan Seagrave's work...
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I had to google him, and yes, his works reminds a lot of the mandelbox
Thanks again Beau!
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