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3d Fractal Geometry
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 3:09 am
by Bubbaloo
Was inspired by a show on Discovery today about Benoit B. Mandlebrot. Created this simple experiment but hit the limits of my little home computer. 17 million polygons, 500 polygons in render.
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 3:20 am
by ivox3
That's sweet. What are we looking at?
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 3:27 pm
by Bubbaloo
Geometric infinity.
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 4:01 pm
by ivox3
No .. More like how'd you do it .......
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 4:09 pm
by Bubbaloo
Manually...
Started with a box.
Instanced and scaled it to half and placed one on the top and four sides of the original. Rinse. Repeat.
I had originally subdivided the box so I could add a turbosmooth to them, but that would have fried my computer.
At 17 million polys my viewport was at .5 frames/sec.
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 4:13 pm
by ivox3
Thanks Brian ..
Maybe a new machine round Xmas ? In fact, let's all help to spend our way our of the current econ-madness with some new i7 machines. lol...
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 7:13 pm
by Bubbaloo
I already tried that excuse on my wife; she didn't buy it.
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 3:18 pm
by Bubbaloo
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 3:31 pm
by NicoR44
That's pretty cool Brian!!!
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 4:40 pm
by devista
NicoR44 wrote:That's pretty cool Brian!!!
yesssssssss
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:35 pm
by -Adrian
Placed by hand eh...
Very cool Bubba, i can't even grasp what i'm looking at there anymore with all the reflections going on.
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:43 pm
by Bubbaloo
-Adrian wrote:Placed by hand eh...
Very cool Bubba, i can't even grasp what i'm looking at there anymore with all the reflections going on.
Haha, it's really easy to do in Max with the new "working pivot".
To me, it looks like a cutting tip that you would use on a tunnelling machine. Can you see the different sections all rotating in different directions? Maybe I'll do an animation... nah...
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 6:11 pm
by tom
More
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 7:14 pm
by sampson
very cool, ...am gonna have to give this a go!
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 8:39 pm
by djflod
animation animation
thats pretty pretty Brian
