2011 m. gruodžio 11 d., sekmadienis

15th Fractal clip & The Golden Spiral.


Hello…
So this vid is not very abstractive as others are and has that implemented meaning at the end of the clip.
Which is a golden spiral and (some quotes from a book called: “A Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe”) “unlike Archimedian spiral, the distance between the golden spiral’s coils keeps increasing, growing wider as it moves away from the source or narrower as it moves toward it. […] This is nature’s spiral of seashells and ram’s horns, of our ears and fists, of watery whirlpools and starspangled galaxies. It grows from within itself and increases according to the Fibonacci process of accumulation” […] “Spirals are the purest expression of moving energy. The universe moves and transforms in spirals, never straight lines. Spirals show up as the path of moving atoms and atmospheres, in molecules and minerals, in the forms of flowing water, and in the bodies of plants”. “These characteristics are the open secret of balance of animal horns, seashells, plants, and galaxies. For instance, as the chambered nautilus creature grows larger, the gland that exudes shell material also grows, building a widening shell. The shell’s golden spiral shape maintains the same center of gravity in any size, and so the nautilus need not relearn how to balance itself as it matures. […] Similarly, the tree that puts out branches and leaves in spiral “staircases” around their respective “eyes” can get enormously large.  
Gothic and Renaissance artists used local shells to design spiral staircase of great strength. The well known sound of the ocean “heard” in a spiral seashell is actually the magnified echo of the blood pulsing in the listener’s own ear.” […] “The groups of birds and swarms of insects, regroup in the pattern of a whirlpool spiral. Some say that is because they are following the unseen water on air. Others maintain that each individual fish, bird and insect is like one cell, one part of a single organism and they are linked as one energy field.
Another property unique to this type of spiral is reflecting in an alternate name for it, the “equiangular” spiral, coined be the French mathematician and philosopher Rene Descartes in 1638: any line drawn from the pole to the curve cuts it at the exact same or “equal” angle all around.
The flight of a fly illustrates this. A fly’s eye is made of thousands of tiny, hexagonally packed facets. It sees the same image fixed in its original place in each facet. As the distance to the object becomes shorter, the angle of approach remains constant. Thus, the path produced is made of segments whose arcs are identical, only different in size – tracking the accumulative golden spiral.”[…]
“The outer ear, or auricle, is one of our body’s most obvious spirals, along with curls of hair and spiral cowlicks, the mushroomlike vortex of our nostrils, our curling fists and accumulating fingernails. Chinese acupuncturists, recognizing the principle that the part models the whole, map the entire spiral embryo onto the spiral ear. Thus, to treat any malady of the body, they’ll first treat the corresponding part of the ear.”
“Not only does our whole body into life as a spiral, but at its heart, our body’s literal heart, is a dexterious (left - spinning) spiral vortex”.
“A single electron in a superheated bubble chamber leaves spiral trails as it loses energy within the chamber’s magnetic field. From the smallest particle whirlpools to the largest clusters of galaxies, each dances the same spiral step when coming into, or dissolving out of, manifestation.”
Hope that in the near future I’ll post some more information about these very interesting things (to me at least) to my blog theworldofthefreactal.blogspot.com
And if you have been watching this or other clips, you easily can notice, that I’m possessed about golden spiral, which contains of the Fibonacci sequences, which and also can be found everywhere in nature. So these kind of things show to us that all Universe has the same laws and doesn’t matter what kind of size is the matter, because her dynamics remains the same. Hmm that’s very interesting to me, and keeps me wondering about. That’s for sure… Bye now. Raimundas Tumėnas

2011 m. gruodžio 8 d., ketvirtadienis

Fractal: Surfing on the waves [music fragment: AFX - Acid 04]


Hello to Everybody!
This is new one. I'm creating these clips just for my enjoyment and placing them on youtube, because I hope that somebody will enjoy them too (but was wrong about that :). Some of the clips are very abstractive (like this one), they won't "tell" ya anything..
Why I started to create these vids? Well, I have been inspired by Steve Willner clips, but his vids showed to me too fast with embedded some kind of meaningful symbols and with a rapid movement these symbols (I think) can be embedded to our brains at the subconscious level (my guess :). Personally do not try to do that (and don't like that, but then clips seems that has no purpose to be created...?), but I like to see how pictures, affected by some effects, are moving on the screen and (for me at least) that is the main goal of creating these kind of clips.
What about music :)? Yes, a music most of the time didn't come from main stream. I like very different music, but for my clips perfectly fit electro music like AFX for instance (and I do not afraid his d'evil smiley face :) , I have to admit, that some of them sounds A BIT INSANE, but others are just perfect for me to listen :) Raimundas Tumėnas 

2011 m. lapkričio 19 d., šeštadienis

12 th Fractal [Aphex Twin - 120 bpm]

Nothing special except that this one does not have even name :).
I came back to my old good music – Aphex Twin, which I really like and can listen very long not like others (like dubstep for instance, because there are appearing the same sound motive embedded to that music every time (and I think dubstep should be called dumbstep :D ), which I personally don’t like repeating theme and AFX is much better for me at least :).
I recently downloaded whole collection of this “band” and I hope that I will implement this music to other clips too.
So the clip has 1 min long “capacity” of time frame and I have been creating this just with a flow and finally added AFX “song”. So this is very abstractive clip even without name :).
I saw earlier interesting “phenomenon”, that if you are creating fractals with even abstract pictures – some times you can get creepy boogeyman motive (that is clearly visible here). That happened instantly I didn’t try to do that.Raimundas Tumėnas 

2011 m. lapkričio 16 d., trečiadienis

Open the 'door' [Moby - isolate mixhell remix]


Hello.
Hmm. What can I say/write about this clip? Well, he reflects my today’s mood, which is a bit melancholic (but, really, this has nothing to do with weather at all :). In this clip you won’t see much fractals, or rapid changing pictures (which some times are fun to create), but these pictures (well, most of them actually) have been selected in order to show for you some kind of meaningful short story for thinking about…
When I started to create the clip, I suddenly chosen a motive of “the door” or I should say the seeking to see what is behind that door (answer in short :). In ourselves are arising that particular question all the time (especially when melancholia appears, but I have to interrupt, that I’m talking about melancholia not like a depression or something like that).  
And the segment of Michell remix of Moby – Isolate perfectly fitted to my clip because it has some kind of synchronicity to these moving pictures and it is totally reflecting that mood. The clip is really too short (as usual), but that is better than nothing (I think). So I hope you enjoy. Bye now. Raimundas Tumėnas

2011 m. spalio 2 d., sekmadienis

Trinity Fractal and Nebulas theme.

Hello.
Every time, when I’m creating clips, I always try to do something new, that would not be so boring for you to watch. At this time I surprised myself :D because the beginning of the clip and the end (with that trinity fractal especially was just astonishing to me :) At this time a fractal object appeared that has no ending and formed an effect that no matter how much we zoom that fractal object, he will repeat infinitely just like never ending mathematical function :D
And the music has been picked up without thinking which will fit the most for this particular video and for this reason music is not synchronized and the clip is very short because I do not think that it is good to watch rotating objects for a 10 or 15 minutes unless the details of the clip would be not so sharp and there should be much more layers (but a process of creation would be very long and too boring for me (but maybe I’ll try))…
So a fragment of the music is from: “chase & status flashing lights”. And I can’t embed video here because of license, but click to the picture and you will see another strange video. I hope you enjoy it, bye now. Raimundas Tumėnas