Pursing truth with reason

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Magma Flow

Hardening Magma Flow

Frozen Magma Flow

Nebulace Extravagance

Wispy Urchin

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Nebulace Extravagance

Wispy Urchin

Magma Flow

Hardening Magma Flow

Frozen Magma Flow

As the Christmas season is upon us, I thought it would be appropriate to share a (fictional) story I wrote for a psychology class I recently took. Unfortunately, since I put more effort into creative imagination rather than strict assignment stipulations, I didn’t get an excellent great, however, I still thought it was good. Enjoy, and Merry Christmas! *Mind the elves’ horrid document keeping…

On the tablet of your heart

I been doing some treasure digging lately in scripture. I had been enjoying my journey through the Psalms, what with the raw poetic expressions of the authors pouring out his/her emotions to God. But then I arrived at Psalm 119. I had obviously heard of the grandeur that is this chapter (not to mention it’s intriguing nearness to the median point of scripture). But as I slowly ingest the…

This was put on the shelf for a while, but I got back to it and added a couple of things.

Animated Soundbars

Static fractal background

Animated particle simulation background

This project also marks my further exploration of the Blender teams new beta release of Blender 2.8. To be honest, I have actually been using the viewport renderer exclusively up to this point. Eevee (Blender 2.8’s new renderer) allows for bloom to be rendered in real-time in the viewport (along with DOF and many other features). In particular though, I am fond of the active object outline that can be included in the final render (which can be set to whatever format one could want) as well as viewport samples. Most admirable about viewport render has ALWAYS been the fraction of time needed for rendering an animation (let along a single image)!

  One of the really cool take-aways from this project was my finding a video format that authentically authentically supports an alpha channel (transparent background). This allowed for some greater transitions and video overlays.

Here are a few snapshots:

This project brought together several software programs. I began with Fractorium for the alpha fractal image sequence, then used Blender 2.8 (beta) to create the background using only Cycles shader nodes.

This was the first real project I did in Blender 2.8.

Afterward, I composited them together in Natron and added some special…

Fractal Animation Creation (with your GPU)!

  Fractal animation videos have been an ambition of mine for about a year now. However, the available (free-to-use) software has made the render time ridiculous. This video marks the end of my searching for a solution to fractal animations in a palatable amount of time. As you can see, the time to render a 10 second video is very…

Celestial Subwoofer

Dawning Hope

Marble Coliseum

Viewfield Obstruction

Brand Emergence

Gordon Moore had first forecasted what would popularly come to be known as “Moore’s Law”, adopted as the industry standard for microchip/technology developers. By extension, software is easily placed in that same era, most significantly with the progression of the internet. (more…)

Alien Vistas Fractal Compilation

Floral Rifts

Floral Rifts Ambiance

Plasma Extractor

Gemini Cavern Blur

Gemini Heat Cavern

Glactic Spiderweb

Mystic Foral Glacier

Floral Rifts_2

I found another fractal-editing software worthy of the quality output I have become accustomed to! It is called Jwildfire, and a couple of these were rendered with it. The others were rendered with Mandelbulb3d (MB3d), or recycled old images I revamped with some…

This was another dabbling experiment in MagicaVoxel. I was particularly impressed with the reflective abilities and how changes to the FOV affected it.

What Are Heroes Made Of?

Music by Rynos Theme Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

There has been a mass fascination in Hollywood on the hero persona. Marvel and DC films are given virtually limitless production budgets with their box-office showings almost always assured a lucrative return. True, it seems this statementi…

Woven Silver Fractal Animation

This is project long in the making. It was a solid 4 weeks of fractal animation rendering, three days of sequence rendering, and subsequent  glitch diagnosing.

Mandelbulber3d (MB3D)

This has been the predominant fractal program in my arsenal to date. It has an interface that was just intuitive for me.

GIMP

Incendia is a fractal generation program, yet it offered a feature I hadn’t found in any other fractal generation programs – easy .obj (3d mesh) output. Much of my artistic expression ends up going through Blender because it is such an incredible all-inclusive suite for anyone working in 2d or 3d.

Alone with Incedia, I was also exposed to another digital means of artistic extraction: MagicaVoxel. Unlike fractal generation programs I was expecting, this is more of a Minecraft-esk program, offering more in the way of direct 3d object manipulation, including vertice, edge, & face extrusion as well as extensive mirroring abilities. What impressed me even more though was the internal rendering API.

In the past, Depth-of-Field was something I only knew how to comprehend in Blender, but this interface was very rich and user-friendly. Furthermore, it has edge detection, material presets, and dynamic light-source based background customization. Hours of fun!

At present, I have a computer entirely dedicated to the task of rendering fractal frames for an animation in true HD. Due the the ambient occlusion and depth-of-field passes, I don’t anticipate this finishing for atleast another week. Stay tuned!

Smoke simuations have been an area of interest of mine for a long time. In the past, I didn’t have the ability to render them since my hardware was inadequate to do it in a reasonable timeframe.

Beginning with a basic gravity-based smoke flow object, I increased the “divisions” (resolution of the voxel data) of the smoke domain. This took a little more time. But still very reasonable to achieve…