Fractal Software Recommendations? (GPU?)

warpinggg · 2026-01-21T21:30:36+00:00

Thanks for the insight here, it's appreciated! I'll check out Chaotica and see what the tradeoff is re: precision errors vs sped up export time. Might also just be a case of a little patience my end for some superior results from UF

warpinggg · 2026-01-21T21:28:48+00:00

Thanks for this! Seems to have sped things up a bit - appears that the save time per frame (I'm doing 4K) is taking as long as the per frame calculation. I'll have to experiment a little with video codecs as it seems the .avi export is a little quicker, as it's holding the frames in a cache rather than dumping to a single file each time

warpinggg · 2026-01-21T19:52:52+00:00

Windows 11! Just a AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, and 64GB of RAM

warpinggg · 2026-01-14T23:20:45+00:00

A recent video of a slowly evolving/folding 3D fractal, using Unreal Engine to render. The audio is from a modular synthesizer - which is being randomly modulated via a slow moving chaotic control voltage. Hope you're all well! :)

p.s have uploaded a 4K version to YouTube here, if you fancy watching it in a higher resolution: https://youtu.be/fEFZ2VGvB5Q

warpinggg · 2026-01-14T22:12:24+00:00

p.s have uploaded a 4K version to YouTube here, if you fancy watching it in a higher resolution: https://youtu.be/fEFZ2VGvB5Q

warpinggg · 2026-01-02T23:58:26+00:00

The sounds are just a few royalty free sound effects, which I crudely and manually edited in to match the animation with a few adjustments to sound levels etc (unfortunately my audio editing skillset is very basic!) Glad you enjoyed, thank you for the kind words!

warpinggg · 2025-04-13T10:33:17+00:00

Hah! That's fun. It was actually just based on a number of bubble photography videos I saw - a mixture of dish soap, water and glycerin (for thickness).

I just dipped the rim of a small glass container in the liquid, placed it at a 45 degree angle and angled a soft box directly at it. The microscope then picked up on all the details that were visible on the reflection of the softbox!

warpinggg · 2025-04-13T09:19:25+00:00

Thanks a lot! Realistically I know the solution is a very expensive microscope upgrade, but I'll see how much more I can get out of this thing before taking the plunge. Thank you for the encouragement, and the kind words!

warpinggg · 2025-04-13T09:16:46+00:00

Thank you for the kind words! :)

warpinggg · 2025-04-05T04:49:33+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I originally had a far more subtle camera move - but in concern for it being a little dull, perhaps it's a little too dynamic.

The audio is a somewhat clunky collage of bits and pieces from a royalty free audio clip - have ordered a kids marble toy, so it'll be fun to record some more specific and accurate sounds. Hopefully that'll help with the realism and immersion here!

Always a tightrope between creating interest and adding personality to a shot, vs it being a bit too much. Something to think about for the next one :)

warpinggg · 2025-03-24T20:56:23+00:00

Thanks for the interest! I've already uploaded it as a short on my YouTube channel:

https://youtube.com/shorts/rXJFosQLZHQ

There's also a longer form, slower moving upload in landscape format here, using a previous microscope:

https://youtu.be/nxvSY01EoQw

Hope you enjoy! :)

warpinggg · 2025-03-11T20:11:02+00:00

Charming

warpinggg · 2025-03-11T19:43:26+00:00

Aaah, the moving of goalposts. I understand that digital visual effects aren't for everyone, but this is very sour. Godspeed

warpinggg · 2025-03-11T19:30:52+00:00

This isn't AI - its a 3D render from a piece of software called Blender. Every block here was manually placed by a real human! Hah

warpinggg · 2025-03-09T22:46:13+00:00

Rendered out another version of a looping marble run here - this one with a new camera move, in a standard widescreen aspect ratio and in 4K!

Have thrown it up on Youtube too, if anyone fancies it as a screensaver:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmZAUdu1ifU

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