A pretty good animation generator is Fractal Animator by Brian Towles.
You can get this program in the FractExtra package on the Fractint
webpages. I like to take curves in the plane and plug them in for c, to
get morphing Julia sets. Also try the program Xaos if you have a fast
machine.
jk
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 16:25:26 -0000 "Nimrod Jones"
<Nimrod(a)doleos.demon.co.uk> writes:
Has anyone else ever thought of using Fractint for fractal animations.
I'm not on about just colour cycles (although they count) but I am mostly
talking about animated zooms. I always thought that it would make a great
animation to be able to "fly" into a fractal. Not just digtally zooming,
but seeing the detail of the fractal unfold as though you were entering
it. I have been experimenting with this a little by painstakingly
incrementing zooms, rendering each image, and then placing them into an
animation program. The major problem with this is that if along the way
you make a mistake, or the motion isn't quite as you want it you need to
go over the whole thing again.
Does anyone know if there is any pre-existing fractal animation programs
out there, or tools for Fractint for doing this. I'm sure it would be a
simple enough task for someone to program a "plugin" of sorts that would
automate the task of animating. At it's most basic level it's simply a
matter of having a start image, zooming in to the required spot on the
start image that you wish to be the end image and then it calculates and
renders each frame, as it renders it saves each frame as either a
seperate image, or as part of a multi-image file as a complete animation.
I, personally, don't mind it generating loads of seperate images as
putting them together as an animation is not the hardest part of the job.
On a slightly more advanced level you could add keyframes to make the
animation stop zooming and start panning, start rotating at a specific
point, etc.
Once the frames themselves have been generated anything more can be done
in animation or movie software...
Any ideas and/or thoughts about this?
Nimrod...
