Have anyone here used the Mandelbulber software ? Spectacular results

This is what seems to be the official website

http://sites.google.com/site/mandelbulber/

Please, Have anyone here used the Mandelbulber software ?

Also is known as Mandelbulb 3D or Mandelcube

Or also the Mandelbox software as seen here

http://sites.google.com/site/mandelbo...-mandelbox

example image in this link

and this one here


it really can make some really stunning, eye popping, jaw droping and awesome results if used right as can be seen here

BE AWARE - be prepared to be astonished and breathless

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=Yb5MRbgNKSk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FoupqgbDkk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO9ugnn8DbE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNIUoXP4YeI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3z52xxEnU4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYsbFreUMkg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-YAKUbOmec

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36OWpnf-QfI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAsX1uesdSo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aco-tFj6ZXU

Please see this very interesting website

www.subblue.com

There are different parts, one is this

http://www.subblue.com/blog/2011/3/5/fractal_lab

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Sphinx wrote: Yep I actually implemented it in Lua for Filter Forge, but it is dead slow and I'm battling scripting bugs

Have you implemented it inside Filter Forge as a filter ?????

but it is dead slow Of course because many of this kind of fractal software depend very much on the GPU to have a good speed, and as you know FF does not have any GPU acceleration.

http://moi3d.com/forum/lmessages.php?...msg=4094.1

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The more power your GPU has, the the better/faster a final image can be rendered.

Have any of you seen the stunning and amazing examples shown here ?
http://sites.google.com/site/mandelbu...e-settings

But this examples are in low resolution and small, Please take a look at this high resolution and lovely and beautiful examples of STILL images I have found and be amazed of what can be done ---> http://www.forocoches.com/foro/showth...?t=2101134

TURN ON THE HIGH QUALITY SETTING ON VIDEO AND FULL SCREEN

Even knowing what can be made, I am still breathless and speechless looking at this jaw dropping beauty that some are able to make with the very high quality and SO MUCH DETAIL and that metallic look ---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb5MRb...ure=fvwrel

If the one above was really beautiful, wait until you see this and you you will drowned in fractal beauty and excellence ---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Foupq...re=related

I already know that fractal are infinite and have lots of detail when traveling inside, BUT with Mandelbulber this has reached to really very high heights !!! Amazing how infinite and huge details can be in a very tiny part of a tiny portion of a fractal as you can see in this video ----> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMLOBk...re=related

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Ramlyn wrote: Small program. Only 8.9 kb.

Only 8,9 KB ??? I think you have downloaded another thing. The Mandelbulber software has in the latest 1.11 9.4 MB in the 32 bit version and 11.2 MB in the 64 bit version of Windows as you can see here

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mandelbulber/files/

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Ramlyn wrote: Does it require a particular graphic card to work well?

I do not think so if you mean if it must be a Nvidia for CUDA or AMD Radeon, because it seems that the GPU acceleration is based on the OpenCL (don´t confuse with OpenGL) as you can see in this forum --> http://www.fractalforums.com/index.ph...pic=8843.0

OR examples in this forum with CPU vs GPU

http://www.fractalforums.com/mandelbu...HPSESSID1=

If you mean the quality and speed of the software , please this quote I have put above

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The more power your GPU has, the better/faster a final image can be rendered.

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The problem I see is that as many software, this needs LOTS of things to learn (which means a lot of time too), and you will have to see HOW to use all the MANY options and settings available in the Mandelbulber software as you can see below in the GUI interface, luckily you do not need to be a expert in mathematics as you can copy the formulaes given.

Thanks very much for the link, Sphinx, is VERY interesting !!!

a video I have just seen made by the genius artist of Subblue

http://www.subblue.com/blog/2011/12/18/music_box

and also this fractal beautiful temple animation also by Subblue

http://vimeo.com/41558647

The last post is from 2012 and I wonder how has evolved all this in the last 3 years, surely there is even more and awesome works done

I have searched in Google Images for what is related to the Mandelbulber on this year 2015 and this is what I have found

Google Images search for Mandelbulber 2015 (from 1 January to 27 July 2015)