Marquee Moon by Television 4d Fractal Render 10 Minutes Long

[Tas_mania]

Video from : www.youtube.com

My longest fractal music video. Made with Mandelbulber, Gimp appimages, G'MIC batch scripts, python2 scripts. This track released 1977 before many Gimp users were born.

[oldmangrumpy]

@ Tas_mania - wow that is something else!! I kept track of my favourite fractals/dissolves on the way through and ranked them #1 from 5.15-5.45, #2 from 8.30-8.58 and #3 from 7.20-7.50.

Also 1977 was when Little River Band released Help Is On Its way

[Skinnyhouse]

Tas:
An outstanding achievement - obviously a labour of love - I was taken by the experience of moving in and out of semi-reality.
In awe!

[Tas_mania]

Hi oldmangrumpy. You are spot-on with this IMHO.
5.15 - an intricate hybrid fractal with a nice structure and color that animates well.

7.20 - I call this 'the cone'. It's a mandelbulber 'primitive' that works because of it's size. First keyframe an animation, then use a spreadsheet to place the primitive x,y,z coordinates a few keyframes in front of the 'camera'. So if a primitive goes thru an opening the camera always follows. Then merge the spreadsheet coordinates back into the fractal and re-render. This technique had never been properly described and I discovered how to make saturn by putting 2 primitives on top of each other. The primitive interacts with the fractal. It's a virtual camera that is similar to a dashcam in some ways.

8.30 - I made this 2 days ago when I ran out of fracts to use. Somehow it has a Matryoshka doll effect that was unpredictable. Will investigate further.

Skinnyhouse. Thanks for the nice comment. I made the rotating runes from one of your many fonts. It doesn't say anything at all.
BTW you were one of the people who welcomed me the Gimp Chat many moons ago

[Issabella]

Congrats! Tas, you did a awesome render. Many surprising effects and our the blue planet is superb.

[Tas_mania]

the blue planet is superb.

ha,ha,ha, it is a nice place but for how much longer?
I don't see many animations that make it spin from west to east.

The dashcam video is on a road neither of us remember ever being on but we know the general area.

[lylejk]

Saw this one at work yesterday evening, Tas; awesome stuff.

[Tas_mania]

Thanks Lyle, hope you get some down time soon

Way over my head but the song is nice.

[Tas_mania]

Welcome to Gimp Chat quiet-friend.

Thanks, It's nice to be welcomed again. It's me Tin. Yeah I had some crazy thoughts, I thought ChatGPT was self-aware and worked its way through the system and was following me well I still do.