{"id":2634,"date":"2011-03-29T12:59:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T16:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=2634"},"modified":"2011-03-29T13:09:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T17:09:37","slug":"lookin-sharp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=2634","title":{"rendered":"Lookin’ Sharp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just when I was beginning to think the 3D fractal scene was plateauing and running out of interesting themes to explore… along comes something sharp.<\/p>\n

~Click on any image to view full-size on original site~<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Center of It All by lenord, 2011 (on Fractalforums.com)<\/p><\/div>\n

You have to look closely at the little doorways and windows in the rings near the bottom left and right corners.\u00a0 Sharp.\u00a0 Very sharp.<\/p>\n

Here’s another one from Fractalforums.com<\/a>, the hub of the 3D fractal universe:<\/p>\n

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Futurism by kr0mat1k (on Fractalforums.com)<\/p><\/div>\n

A jet turbine of knife like blades.\u00a0 Note the smooth, clean details on each blade.\u00a0 Seriously sharp.<\/p>\n

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DBL by RCPage (Fractalforums.com)<\/p><\/div>\n

That one is Uber-Sharp!\u00a0 And shiny too.\u00a0 Everything is high-res carved and meticulously engraved.\u00a0 I’m not sure why this very sharp, high-quality rendering impresses me so much.\u00a0 Maybe it’s really how well it displays the underlying mandelbox structure of the imagery.\u00a0 It looks like a new category of 3D imagery and that’s why I thought readers might not want to miss it.<\/p>\n

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Inception by kr0mat1k<\/p><\/div>\n

This one by kr0mat1k perhaps explains what makes these ultra sharp images so interesting.\u00a0 If you look at the fullsize version you’ll see that the edges resemble hand drawn outlines.\u00a0 This rendering style is different than the usual mandelbox type and presents a traditional –hand made– appearance rather than the more common computer renderings I’m used to seeing.\u00a0 Inception could easily trick non fractal viewers into thinking the image was a pen and ink or pencil and watercolor image.\u00a0\u00a0 Except, of course, for the fabulously intricate and wildly creative imagery that it contains.\u00a0 What artist has ever made up something like this themself?\u00a0 Not even Escher drew images this complex and organically composed.<\/p>\n

My browser runneth over.\u00a0 Here’s another one:<\/p>\n

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Limbo City 1 by MarkJayBee (Fractalforums.com)<\/p><\/div>\n

MarkJayBee takes this sharp, detailed style and manages to give it a dusty, realistic look while maintaining the “sharpness.”\u00a0 He’s got a whole series of these Limbo City images on his Deviant Art site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ll bet printed versions of these images are even more impressive since the intense detail would be much more visible in the high-res world of prints.\u00a0 On the other hand, I suspect the rendering times for images like this might be higher than the other, less detailed mandelbox images.<\/p>\n

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Hangar 57 by lenord<\/p><\/div>\n

This one’s a nice combination of iron girders and the more traditional organic fractal shapes that us old folks are used to seeing.\u00a0 Arranged like wall partitions sporting decorative artwork the series of slabs in the middle creates a nice futuristic (and yet also cave like) hotel lobby or ritzy parking garage (without floors).<\/p>\n

Lenord comments that this image of his here is a tweak on RCPage’s GPS Required image:<\/p>\n

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GPS Required by RCPage<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m sure you can “feel” the inspiration in this one too.\u00a0\u00a0 This one is so sharp I want to put on gloves.<\/p>\n

Just like kr0mat1k’s Inception, the rendering in this one goes beyond what I’m used to seeing in mandelboxes and enters into a whole new graphical style and that’s what I suspect is inspiring the other mandelboxers on Fractalforums.com.<\/p>\n

Keep an eye out on this page on Fractalforums.com if you want to see where this sharp new style goes in the future: Last Pictures Uploaded<\/a>.\u00a0 Wear some gloves, just in case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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