Convergent Adaptations

"Horsthuis turns 3D fractals into glowing forms midway between jungle vegetation and deep-sea life."
-CGCHANNEL

Adaptations are responsible for all the variety in life. This can be done with fractals as well.
www.julius-horsthuis.com
music:
"Nayeli" by Rildrim
https://soundcloud.com/rildrim

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Voices of the Ancestors

This is a Fractal Place. The bioluminescent realm is filled with the memories of the ancient.
by www.julius-horsthuis.com
music:
"Of Death & Dying" by Hans Zimmer
stretched 300%

Background
This is an experiment with using Dyn Fog as internal lighting. Instead of lighting the scene from a light source offscreen, or a point light, this looks like there's little lights scattered around everywhere - a bioluminescent realm. It's actually a tweak from the parameters I used in my Underwater Fractal Tutorial.

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Fractals of Incidence

"Fractals of Incidence sees his signature slow-moving, cinematic long-shots of animated fractals in a deep blue landscape of melting, morphing ice."
- THE CREATORS PROJECT

a _CelticMode, an Amazing-Box-Smooth-Fold and a rotate C. Simple mathematics define the forms of the frozen netherworld. Incidental reflections and refractions do the rest. The music is of a soundtrack by the amazing Eric Serra from the Luc Besson movie Atlantis. (from the early nineties)

Background
This is my first piece where the entire Fractal is transparent. Transparency is something that Mandelbulb3D doesn't handle easily. The ray-traced refractions are prone to a lot of noise and therefor extremely slow to render. Also, because fractal geometry usually doesn't consist of solids, but is made up of layers, like an onion. All this endless detail makes it almost impossible to get a good solid look. Some fractals however, like this one, is pretty solid and therefor a good candidate for some icy or glassy renders. Also, I toyed a little with some light absorption settings, which yielded a faux SSS look. I rendered non-antialiased on 4K and a denoise filter in After Effects before scaling down to 2K. That worked surprisingly well, and might be a great idea to use in general for the future. Rendering non-antialiased in 4K also ensures that the Z-buffer is clean, and this reduces artifacts when applying Depth of Field as well.

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Emergence

"We had Julius out at the Samskara studio in Chiang Mai last month and are excited to see the new equations of eternity he continues to discover."
-ANDROID JONES

A series of Fractal organic landscapes with geometric structures. Between the organic and the geometric, interesting things happen.
www.julius-horsthuis.com
All rendered in Mandelbulb3D
Music:
"The Bedraggling" by Tipper

Background
I knew that it existed before, but had never really tried to make anything with the method. I'm talking about DE combinate, a method in Mandelbulb3D that lets you combine fractals in another way. You can actually have two completely different fractals in one scene. One has to be a simple one that consists as only one formula, and the other can be a regular one that is more complex. So I tried to make these geometric structures that exist in some natural scene like a jungle. Especially interesting is what happens on the intersection. Like the ornamental structures in the 'Garden Temple' scene - they are basically half "Amazing Box" (the temple) and half the mix of formulas that created the plants and flowers. When I made this in 2016, I had just returned from a short but very inspiring journey to Chiang Mai, Thailand. I was invited there by visionary artist Android Jones to talk about working together on his fulldome project Samskara. It was a truly amazing trip and I imagine that the lush temples I saw there must have somehow inspired this piece as well. This is also true about the music I used for this piece. I had never heard of David Tipper, but Andrew (Android) introduced me to his music. This particular piece - The Bedraggling - went very well with the eerie and weird landscapes.

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Foreign Philosophy

"Beautiful Dark Twisted Alien Fractal Fantasy"
-THECREATORSPROJECT

Ancient towers, statues of demons, endless hallways. Alien capsules and big, shiny globules. They are the images from my earliest childhood nightmares. Rendered in Fractal. www.julius-horsthuis.com music: "The Lush Planet (Ambient Early)" by Griffin Cohen

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The Rhyacian

"The combination of epic renderings, awesome music, and a cool scientific themes make this an experience rather than just a cool fractal video."
-CYBERTREE (YouTube)

A Fractal journey to the birth of the Eukaryotic Cell; the building block of almost all life we see today. www.julius-horsthuis.com music: "Prayer For A God" by Darren Tate The Rhyacian is a geologic period that lasted between 2300 and 2050 million years ago. In this period, the first Eukaryotic cells emerged. Until this period, the earth had been inhabited only by the much simpler Prokaryotes, which make up Bacteria and Archaea. The birth of the Eukaryote with its distinctive nucleus has been extremely important for evolution to get going. All fungi are Eukaryotes. All plants and animals are Eukaryotes. We are made out of mysterious Eukaryotes that continue to exist after that magical moment in the Rhyacian, over two billion years ago.

Background
One of my own favorite pieces. A celebration of evolution - a subject I'm extremely intrigued by. I'm not usually into this kind of trance music, but for some reason I really like this music and think it works great to create this feeling of a drug-induced trip - not very psychedelic but more hardcore.
The last shot, the slow-moving rotation around the structure at the end has a special meaning to me. What you see is a fractalized 3D scan of a woman, lying on her stomach. It's hard to make out, but once you see it, it will become obvious. The woman I scanned has been my wife for many years, but now we have become separated. This is my fractalized memory of her.

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Primeval Replicators

"Horsthuis builds a field of Alien seeds or flower buds."
-CGCHANNEL

Fractals tell us something about the way the world works, and this, to me, is just incredible interesting. The idea that something seemingly complex and infinitely detailed can come from very simple beginnings is paradoxical. Either there’s something magic about math that it can do this, or—which I think is more likely—the detail and complexity is just an illusion, enhanced by the fact that our brains with which we perceive this, are made with similar fractal processes. www.julius-horsthuis.com music: "Baraka Theme" from Michael Stearns

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A Fine-Tuned Universe

Fractal crystals tuned to the melody of "La Tour Qui Chante" by Maurice Horsthuis www.julius-horsthuis.com

BACKGROUND
Not an easy one, nor a quick render. The fractal consists of two layers, one crystalline, or transparent, and the other dark opaque carbon-like. I started with rendering the crystal, which I had already tried in one of the scenes in "Our Fractal Brains" . The render took extremely long, maybe as much as months. The carbon-render was a lot quicker. I rendered out a third layer, one I could use to mix the two together in After Effects. Essentially this was a black-and-white map, that I tweaked using the audio, giving me a dynamic mix map. The ending of the piece is actually the same as the beginning, this time only the crystal, and mirrored.

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Minas Mandel

"These fractal visualizations look like Erebor on Steroids!"
-THELANDOFSHADOW.COM

Fractals from Middle-Earth. www.julius-horsthuis.com music: "Isengard Unleashed" by Howard Shore

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Our Fractal Brains

"Beautiful fractal landscape seems like eerie, epic ruins"
- BOINGBOING

Poetic Fractals. I use fractals for developing skills – they are exercises in framing, composition, typography, color and style. music: "Reaching Land" by Patrick O'hearn rendered in Mandelbulb3D
When we look at our world we search for patterns struggling to make sense of a senseless place Peace is found in chaos as we fill it with purpose Connections create meaning in our Fractal Brains
BACKGROUND
I really liked the film ' The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ' by Ben Stiller. The unconventional imagination of both the lead character as well as the director resonated with me. One of the scenes that stuck was the scene where Mitty first starts to travel, to Greenland. Everywhere through the shots we see words that form sentences. I wanted to do something like that, and that's how the idea of this short film emerged. When I discovered Patrick O'hearn's Reaching Land trough Google Play Music's recommendations, It clicked. That was the score to use for this idea. So I set out to write something like a poem, that kind of did that thing, and started digging through the vast Fractal Soil to unearth those little gems. Graphic design is definitely not my strongest side (understatement) but I tried to play around with fonts and styles, having learned a little from my time with Carbon Media. Machmoving occurred mostly in After Effects, although I did the glass / crystal scene in 3dsMAX. That was by the way also the first time I used Transparency in MB3D. Something postponed for that long because of its ridiculous long render times, as well as its need for triple anti-aliasing, in stead of double, as I use to. The response has been amazing to this video, and at October 24th 2015 it has been picked by Vimeo as a Staff Pick, of which I am immensely proud.

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Subita Mundi

Sudden Worlds - Spontaneous Places. Fractal math has the power to instantly create a place that we have never visited. www.julius-horsthuis.com music: Temple Invisible - Sudden Acts (The Ghost Of 3.13 Remix)

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Deep Time

"Dive into the beautiful & mystical"
ITS ART MAGAZINE

Fractal Time lapses www.julius-horsthuis.com rendered in Mandelbulb3d music: 'Within' by Michael Stearns

BACKGROUND
I had been playing with the idea of doing fractal time lapses for a while, but the idea sparked again after seeing the movie Baraka, of which I did a blog post . The slow moving camera and change of light, with sometimes long shadows moving over an epic or beautiful structure seemed profound to me. I discarded the idea of the fractals themselves to morph, as I thought this would diminish the feel that these were actual landscapes. I did do the morphing landscape with time-lapse clouds in "Everything From Above" . This was different in that I used no clouds moving, only too-perfect sunny skies, with a good amount of mist, created by heavy diffusion along the z-buffer. The second vista also contains volume lights, which is a feature I hadn't used yet. The huge extra time on rendering doesn't weigh up to the mildly improved look. My original idea was to use a lot of lens-flares and other artifacts to make it more realistic. But I found that the tranquil and sterile look worked better with the music, which I took from Michael Stearns. Later, it has been re-scored on my request by Italian composer Giovanni di Bernardo.
When Reuters picked up on this piece and wanted to publish it, they had wrongly interpreted the dictionary quote in the beginning of the film, thinking I meant to 'visualize' what the earth looked like billions of years ago. Obviously, I don't actually believe that it is possible to do with this technique, and my choices have been aesthetic ones exclusively.

This is the same piece, re-scored by Di Bernardo:

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Thermal Stress

"Attention, expérience hypnotique hors du commun!"
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2015 AD. A tunneling operation has gone terribly wrong. The tunnel caved in and the engineers are trapped inside. Suffering from heatstroke and asphyxiation, they start to hallucinate. This is their Fractal Hallucination. www.julius-horsthuis.com music: 'Don't let go' by Steven Price

BACKGROUND
As with so many other works, this piece started with some experimentation. I thought the resulted render looked somewhat like a drill, or tunneling device, with interlocking gear-like bore heads. I was thinking about how I would go about rotating the bits, and it turned out that rotating one of the axes of the Amazing Surf parameter did just that. I learned some things from the way the keyframing worked by this. Rotating more then 180 degees between to key frames resulted in an opposite rotation the other way. So rotating 360 degrees equals no rotation at all. Because I wanted to spin the gears quite quickly I had to use the maximum rotation possible, which is 179 degrees/frame to make sure it was spinning the correct direction. This is another example of the severe limitations of the software, and would be totally unacceptable in 3dsMAX or Maya, but I really enjoy finding creative solutions around these restrictions. I had used the little story, with the phrase "This is their Fractal Hallucination" twice before, and thought it was fitting to use as the third installment of the 'Fractal Hallucination' series. The other two are 'Solar Wind' and 'Navigation in Dreamtime' . Sometimes really weird things happen in these things, like the bit where all the round things seem to emerge out of a milky liquid substance. This is a total accident and not intended at all, but to my satisfaction it works out great. To enhance the sci-fi horror feel I used an alarming track from the movie 'Gravity'.

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The Singularity

www.julius-horsthuis.com 2015 rendered in Mandelbulb3d music: "Oppenheimer" by Jocelyn Pook

Hardly deserving the name Fractal Short, this piece is so short that I wish I had fleshed it out more. It is a tweak from 'The Engineers' and this fact is indeed easy to spot. I liked it because of the hellish pit it formed. The motion was also so weird - like a snake strangling a helpless animal to death. I have no idea why, but that strange music from Jocelyn Pook made the whole thing stand out a bit more.

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Machine

Fractal fly-throughs can be boring – so I made this one extra-long to make sure you would get super bored. That is unless you start to forget the world around you and let your imagination fill in the fractal void. Every nook and cranny will start to come alive – have a purpose. The deeper you go, the more intense this place will feel. You’ll be so immersed you won’t comprehend that all it takes to create this world is the code written on the side of the frame. Please check out www.julius-horsthuis.com for more fractaliciousness. If this gets enough attention I might consider re-rendering this for VR (Oculus, Gear VR, etc.)

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Divergent Evolution

The DNA of mathematics - endless shapes and forms. by Julius Horsthuis www.julius-horsthuis.com music: "Soufie"by Banco de Gaia

Background
A tweak from a tweak from a tweak. Most of my work is starting to become like this. The pineapple forest was a variation on ' the Branching of Phyla ', which I created for a pitch. Because it was not selected, it turned into an animation. I think this particular formula is rather interesting, there's a lot of shapes that it can produce, and the palm-leafs are quite serendipitous. The dynamic fog isn't usually very present in my work, but here I've used it, and it produces some thin, smoky geometric lines. Sort of foreboding where matter were to appear if you'd change the threshold of some function. I thought it was interesting to try some psychedelic tune, although this one is really old- from the early nineties. Electronic music does not always sit well with this type of animations, but in this case I thought it would add to the trippy atmosphere. It is my entry for the 2015 fractalforums.com fractal art competition. On July 1st, it was announced this piece is the winner of the competition!

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Where Forests Are...

"The transitions between vivid green landscapes, earthy brown pillars, alien red outcroppings and, finally, shiny white light is an emotional journey."
THE CREATORS PROJECT

A Fractal Haiku by Julius Horsthuis 2015 music: "I Have Begun My Ascent" by Jessica Curry

Background
This started out as an interesting combination of functions that looked kind of interesting to me. Basically I wanted the morphing to be more slowly and throughout the piece. Every keyframe looked totally different, not only the function changed, also the colors of every keyframe. Originally the piece was longer, with some extra stuff happening at the end, after the 'blue sky'. I tried to turn it into a black and pink neon world, but this really didn't look any good, so I chopped off the ending, giving it a much more solid feel. I've always liked the soundtrack of the game 'Dear Esther' and its eerie but beautiful sound worked really well with this piece.

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Dutch

A Fractal Museum tour through Holland's biggest treasures: The polders, the agricultural history, Delftware, but also the capital and the famous Kingsday celebrations. (all fractal, ofcourse.) by Julius Horsthuis 2015 music: "Onderdoor" by Maurice Horsthuis

Background
This silly short started with two ideas. One was the soundtrack that my father, Maurice Horsthuis, wrote for a documentary about Holland's most famous museum, 'het nieuwe Rijksmuseum'. The second was a technique I wanted to try to create Fresnel reflections on something like a China plate. In real life, everything except metal is more reflective at grazing angles then at straight angles. (Look straight into a window and you barely see your own reflection, but if you look into the glass from an angle it seems to turn into a mirror) Most CG renders such as Vray that I often use have this type of reflection built-in. Unfortunately, Mandelbulb3D has no such function, and when it does reflections, it does them uniformly across the surface. This is why most pieces rendered with reflections look metallic- metal has no Fresnel reflections. - Like in ' the hard problem of Consciousness ' In order to fake Fresnel reflections I wanted to render two passes, one with and one without reflections. Then blend between them using a special Normal pass that I made. In the end, it didn't look good on the two Delft Blue pieces here, because the surfaces are too detailed and not smooth enough. When I had the idea of the Delft Blue and the Museum tour, I started thinking how I could visualize other aspects of Dutch culture with fractals. Some are a bit far-fetched, but it was a fun exercise nonetheless.

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Galaxarium

"Galaxarium, Julius Horsthuis's 3D fractal animation, explores vast cosmic architecture, set to a sweeping Hans Zimmer soundtrack. Beautiful stuff."
-CGchannel

Emergence and self-similarity. by Julius Horsthuis music: "Day One Dark" by Hans Zimmer

Background
This world is actually a standard Amazing Box, but it has some extra functions that create the tron-like lines. Together with a dark/yellow texture and some after effect glow I though it looked kinda cool. It rendered quite fast, and at one point I changed the ending, to go spiraling down a field of pillars. 'Endless' zooms I don't actually often use, although it's one of the most well-known and interesting features of fractals. There are two reasons for this. One is that once zoomed in really deep you usually cannot change (or morph) the parameters much, since every millimeter has become a light-year. The second reason is that it's hard to create a smooth curve down the generations. The camera path should actually be logarithmic, but there's no way to implement this in Mandelbulb3D, so there's this jagged motion like a car that keeps accelerating and braking. You can see this unfortunate effect at the end of ' Phenotypic Sarcophagi '. The Spiraling seems to solve this problem. I've used this also in a music video I did. Ever since the 1990's I've liked the music of Hans Zimmer, but usually I find it too bombastic to use for fractals, but the organs from Interstellar were just begging to be used between these grand pillars.

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Looking Glass

Three-dimensional mirrors reflecting the fourth dimension. This becomes very unstable quickly. By Julius Horsthuis 2015 Music: “Mantra, Organics” by Michael Stearns

Background
Starting out as a deleted scene from ' lingua naturae ' i came upon this nice shape that looks somewhat like a mechanical tree. I started animating it, with the camera moving into the tree structure as I animated the function sliders to morph the fractal. In the tiny preview window, this looked really awesome. However, after it had rendered, I saw lots of things I couldn't tell from the navigator window. In the small navigator window it looked like the morphing of the structure was many-fold and layered. It turned out is was only symmetry axes that moved in and out, giving a 'kaleidoscope' effect that I usually try to avoid. There are plenty of examples of this (for me) unwanted effect, but it's something that you just have to accept at some level. here it was so prevalent that I just had to deal with it, so I introduced the 'mirror' theme. Also I played the movie backwards, starting from within, and revealing the tree-shape in the final moments. Some broken glass textures where tracked and rendered in 3dsmax, and all the webbing is from a 3dsmax plugin, GrowFX.

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