Mandelbulb3d

[pfrancke]

I was able to generate the below from a free program called Mandelbulb3d.  The Mandelbulb seems especially interesting because the premise is about going deeper and deeper inside 3d fractals where you always keep finding new levels of detail.

I am very excited about the upcoming 64bit TG2!!!!

Something for TG2 to consider -- fractals as a landscape/texture tool.  (well what do I know, probably already is in a sense)

[AP]

That looks trippy. I know with Mojoworld you can do some crazy stuff with some plugin as well but as far as terragen goes, we need procedural erosion types first before anymore fractals are considered because terragen is badly lacking in the realism department here. Alpine shader had a kind of erosion but were are only talking one shader terrain here.

[pfrancke]

I can and do agree with all that Chris.  But in a funny kind of way, my beef with TG2 is that it makes such a wonderful general purpose rendering utility (if only it could treat objects a little more gently - bmp for instance).  Strange beef right?  It generates atmosphere that is out of this world.  In other words, to heck with the terrain!!?  <grin>

And take the little Mandelbulb 3d program.  They developed a rendering engine just to see the fractals.  But I wish that they also had something going in the object department.  Imagine if you could place objects into their fractal worlds (space ships and monsters of course), like you can in TG2.  Or clouds?   Or had a node system that let you apply texture to the fractals based on a number of different strategies?

I want to live another 100 years, can you imagine the toys we will be able to play with?

[Zairyn Arsyn]

wow! that looks awesome.. and freaky... very otherworldly
i feel like entered a alternate dimension/universe, no solid ground.

combine overworld...

[jaf]

That's a neat program -- thanks for the information.

I made my first image with it and it (I think) turned out pretty good.

Oh. I added the mushrooms. 

[red_planet]

Thanks for the heads up... darn.. now I've got another way to spend hours of time not doing something else ...curses...but ...it's jolly good fun...

Rgds

Chris