If it wasn't for Julius Horsthuis, who recently released 2 fractal animations in 360 format for Gear VR and Oculus Rift, I would never have found this beautiful piece of software called 'Mandelbulb 3D'. It's a FREE piece of 3D rendering software to generate images and videos from the mathematics of complex numbers, aka Fractals. Apparently a breakthrough was made around 2008, when a method was discovered to render a 3D representation of fractals. You can find tons of beautiful work already on google images, vimeo video, etc. Seeing those examples of professional work immediately shows you how amateuristic my first attempt at using this software looks. I have managed to produce something though, and since the Gear VR community is craving for any content, I'm making the file available for download for FREE today at this link :
http://www.mypageofmanythings.com/do...flythrough.mp4
This 1 min 47 second video gives a quick impression of what is possible with this software. It's just a teaser of what's to come once I know what I'm doing. I've really only spent an hour or 2 learning the software and setting up this first animation so far. So please forgive me for some of the obvious errors I've made flying through walls and stuff. My PC took 18 hours to render all the frames and I have spent many days in frustration trying to get the file converted to the proper format so it plays back in the Gear VR. It turns out that Oculus 360 videos does not support the same file formats as Milk VR. I have my rendered files only working in Milk VR at the moment, so follow these steps to play the video on Gear VR :
Download from link above (^^)
Create folder on root of phone memory (not sd card) called VoltVR
Copy mp4 file into VoltVR folder
Launch Milk VR, open 'downloaded' section, play file
Enjoy this free content for your Gear VR. More to come soon.
AceHighness
http://www.mypageofmanythings.com/do...flythrough.mp4
This 1 min 47 second video gives a quick impression of what is possible with this software. It's just a teaser of what's to come once I know what I'm doing. I've really only spent an hour or 2 learning the software and setting up this first animation so far. So please forgive me for some of the obvious errors I've made flying through walls and stuff. My PC took 18 hours to render all the frames and I have spent many days in frustration trying to get the file converted to the proper format so it plays back in the Gear VR. It turns out that Oculus 360 videos does not support the same file formats as Milk VR. I have my rendered files only working in Milk VR at the moment, so follow these steps to play the video on Gear VR :
Download from link above (^^)
Create folder on root of phone memory (not sd card) called VoltVR
Copy mp4 file into VoltVR folder
Launch Milk VR, open 'downloaded' section, play file
Enjoy this free content for your Gear VR. More to come soon.
AceHighness
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