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Hi Friends,
New Fractal Art has been oozing out of my computer for the past few days, this time they are from Mandelbulb3D Fractal editor.
3D Fractal Art is quickly becoming a more addictive creative expression in my life.

I remember seeing these 3D fractals back a few years ago and thinking, "oh how wonderful it would be to create art like that, I need to know how!"
What made the most impact in my mind was the videos made using 3D Fractals and flying around and inside these trippy otherworldly creations!

That's when I decided to take the plunge into the world of 3D fractal art! There was one little problem, I had no idea how they were made and at the time, there wasn't anyone making any instructional tutorials about how to do that. In fact, it wouldn't be for another year or so that I would find some videos on YouTube about this software that could make it.

Trouble was, it was very daunting and I thought it might be too much to get into, both in cost of software and cost in time to learn the ropes.
Well, I found that the software which is used to make them was actually Free and Open Source! That was great, now I just had to learn to use it! That proved to be a long and time consuming process.

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My Adventure Had Begun

So, being a person who has no idea about how to quit or admit that something may be more difficult than I could ever understand and learn to do, I started my journey into the world of 3D Fractal Art.
I was already creating fractal art with the 2D Fractal Flame editor known as JWildfire, that proved to be a great starting point for the 3D Fractal Art learning. Fractal flames are named as such because, the way I see it, they resemble flames of a fire in the way that they are flowing and how the light is mostly soft and seems to dance while you watch.

It may just be that I am a bit of a Pyromaniac, but never get the urge to set things alight, but rather prefer to just watch the flames in my fireplace or BBQ and get enough satisfaction from that!

So I already had been using the JWildfire editor for several years and learned how fractals were the result of complex geometric calculations that were displayed as a graphical representation of the maths and found that the editor was easy enough to wrap my mind around. So how difficult could it be to do the same thing this time with 3D Fractals?

It turns out, quite a bit more complex, because of the dimensional aspect of it! Working in 2D is like working in sheet of paper. Flat is the basis of your work area, you only have to think about X and Y, which is up-down and left-right. But now I had to understand how the Z plane came into play.

No, maths was NOT my strong interest in school! In fact, I hated geometry and all the formula that somehow made sense to everyone but me! So, I did the best I could and got outta there as quickly as possible!

Back to the fractals, so about this time JWildfire had been updated and improved with some interesting additional elements. The guy who makes the program was also trying to get 3D into the JWildfire program.
Trouble was, it was not an overnight success, in fact it was quite crap to start with, not because the guy couldn't write the code, he's a great coder! No, it is because there's a world of difference between the way that the calculations for 2D fractals and 3D fractals are displayed when worked out.

Yes, you can get a 3D fractal representation inside of a 2D fractal editor, but compared to Mandelbulb3D Fractal editor or any other 3D fractal editor, the results are quite different. So much so, that after spending hour after hour trying to learn to make 3D fractals in JWildfire with extremely little success, especially when first introduced to the process, I found that this was really a waste of my time to keep throwing away so much precious time and getting little return for my efforts.

The good thing that came from it was a more determined outlook on needing to satisfy that addiction to these 3D fractals and how they just kept eluding me. My drive to know became an overdrive and my foot was to the floor in my search for knowledge!

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Fast forward about two years and I have been reading and watching videos on making 3D Fractals plus hanging around in different forums and user groups acting like a sponge to soak up as much information as I could about creating these elusive fractals.
Not to mention having failure after failure in my journey to make something close to what others were making and posting online and still not giving up.

Things slowly started to turn in my favour, having a few successful good looking fractals that I had actually put together from scratch from time to time and also finding out the process to create animations in the program too! I started feeling that satisfaction more often than not.

Many people helped me along the way and my journey is far from over! In fact, the images here are from my latest animation which is another flythru video that I have started, so it will be probably my 4th or 5th video in this medium.

This animation will probably be the most complex so far, one reason is because of the long render time for each frame. These three images took an average of 3.5 to 4 hours each and when you're rendering up to and over a thousand frames, that takes a long long time! I will most likely reduce the size of the animation to maybe 720p which is still HD.

I can tell you that I no doubt would be a long way away from where I am in producing art like this if it wasn't for the help of others like my good friend @woodywood143!
I also learned how to do the animation process from @donwhittaker on YouTube.

I doubt that I will be teaching anyone else how to create 3D Fractal Art for quite some time. There's a big difference between understanding and being able to convey that understanding to others in any meaningful way.
But, one day I just might feel confident in doing that, but for now I have to be happy to just create these trippy images and share them with you!

Thanks for viewing!

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