A Well Trodden Path

PhoenixDoubleNova, an Extended Excursion

This one, I have made into something more, see the video at the end:

 

And on we go:

This next bit (starting with 'as') was written by somewhat randomly keyboard-mashing purely to have some text there, so that I could position the image somewhere in the document, I meant to delete it, but I kinda like it now, so I am going to leave it here. I am a dad now, and maybe this could be read as some degenerate form of nihilistic poetry about a fractal amongst all the flaming ads! ;),

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The above was the original image that I had pasted (from Picasa Web Albums!) into this initial blog post stub from verrry long ago, now linked (in the more modern way, though afaik you might not be able to browse the albums from here?!, bloody hell!) via Google Photos.

I hope you've enjoyed this little fractal escapade!

Here's the (longer and with better gamma) video of the fractal landscape that I made from a 16-thousand-pixels-square version of the image at the top of this post:

The idea of this clip is to explore procedurally generating a fly-through camera move across a very large (16k) image, and trying to cover as much of it (or, the interesting bits!) in close-up as possible. I reckon this test succeeds admirably at the 'go-around-the-image' aspect of the goal, and that is why I'm posting it, despite its partially-baked aspects.