[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.

[ivox3]

That's sweet. What are we looking at?

[Bubbaloo]

Geometric infinity.

[ivox3]

No .. More like how'd you do it .......

[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.

[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...

[Bubbaloo]

I already tried that excuse on my wife; she didn't buy it.

[Bubbaloo]

[NicoR44]

That's pretty cool Brian!!!

[devista]

That's pretty cool Brian!!!

yesssssssss

[-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.

[Bubbaloo]

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...

[tom]

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[sampson]

very cool, ...am gonna have to give this a go!

[djflod]

animation animation


thats pretty pretty Brian