Wk1 - Fractals, Maths & Music

I'm not having much luck in regard to finding some script to create a Mandelbox in Maya... I haven't given up hope yet though.

In any case, we had our first DMM3 Meeting today.  We pitched our ideas.  Of course, now I feel like I've started down the Mandelbox track...  Alistair mentioned Michael Barnsley and Kit mentioned Tim Brook - Mathematics/Fractal Art.  Alistair also mentioned the Lindenmayer System (L-System on Wiki and Wolfram Mathworld)

Another thing that was mentioned was Fractal Compression and the failure of Fractal-based Music.  I wonder whether there is possibility of using such "music" as accompanying audio?

Update:
I went to Hancock Library and got a few books out by Michael Barnsley (Michael.Barnsley@anu.edu.au or mbarnsley@aol.com): "Fractals Everywhere", "Superfractals" and "Fractals in Multimedia".  His site, www.superfractals.com is also very interesting.

Wk1 - Mandelbox Test Render

Ever since watching Duncan Brinsmead's video, I've been fascinated by the Mandelbrot Set, and the subsequent Mandelbulb and the newest Mandelbox.

I found a very old program called Mandelbulber...  I rendered out something simple... not bad really...

For Reference:

1979 Mandelbrot Set (Benoît Mandelbrot) - zn+1 = zn2 + c

2007 Mandelbulb (Daniel White and Paul Nylander) - See The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbulb for details.


2010 Mandelbox (Tom Lowe) See What is a Mandelbox for more detail, particularly the gallery.

Wk1 - Ideas for this semester

I thought I was very clear about what I wanted to do but as of today I don't know.  A friend of mine thought it might help if I outline the various ideas I had for this semester thus here they are:

• Animated GIFs - I like the ones with tension
• Light Bulb
• Smash TV
• Abstract video with a base of mundane/potentially bad, grainy footage processing it to the point of non-resemblance.  Using a combination of Nuke and FCP.
• Something programmatic - Porcessing or Maya -> shapes/fractals -> Mandelbrot set.
• I'd have to learn both, maybe too late in the degre to do this with the tools I don't understand.  What about Nuke though?
• Continue analysing things close up using actual video
• Video Animation -> Morph train to pieces to Bird.
• Koyanastazi for Canberra.

Wk1 - The lift door opens...

So, I spent the afternoon shooting inside the lift in the Music School building with another dude from the comp class.  It's ok footage but 1) it's yellow; and, 2) the lift has one door.  On the plus side, the fan was interesting to film.  Pfft.

Wk1 - Video Complementary 2

Day 1 of my last semester of Uni.

It was alright. Played with the 5D this afternoon. Mostly footage of the lift within the Music building.

I'm not really wanting to be here this semester.  I kinda want a semester off to be honest. But maybe once I stop doing full-time work as well I'll feel differently.  Here's hoping.

In any case, digital video with Riley should be good.  I'm still deciding whether I want to go with my original idea or not but I'm sure that will materialise as time progresses.

Options at this stage:

1. Video experimentation based on highly processed video footage to the point of non-resemblance.
2. Processed video (as above) mixed with experimental projection within Maya
3. Processing - Or at least something programmatic.
4. Animated GIFs - something I've been fascinated with and something I've been blogging under inspiration for a while. 

What am I going to do this semester?

So I got the camera out today... just thought I'd just shoot some stuff in preparation for the semester.  I got some footage of some porriage and out my window... I wasn't feeling inspired.  Oh well, another time.