TITLE: Fractal Dreaming
NAME: Sammy Fischer
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: sammy@cube.net
WEBPAGE: http://home.talkcity.com/GalleryDr/schnoet
TOPIC: Imaginary Worlds
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: fracdrm.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Maxon Cinema 4D XL 5.27

TOOLS USED: 
    Corel Photopaint, CineHaar Plugin, Itiera, Organica

RENDER TIME: 
    1 Minutes 27 Seconds for the last picture.

HARDWARE USED: 
    self assembled Dual PII-333, 256Mb Ram


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


 Probably one of the many Mandelbrot Set oriented pictures. 

 First some (hopefully right) basics: 
  Complex numbers are described as a+bi, whereby bi is called the 
  imaginary part of the number. 
  Complex numbers are used to compute the mandelbrot set.
  One of the attribute of fractals, is that, independently of the 
  detail level, each part is *similar* to all other part (It looks the
  same, but is not identical.)
 
 Now to the picture:
  Someone dreams he is dreaming he is dreaming ..., but of course, as 
  this is a fractal dream, each dream level is only similar to the others. 
  No two are exactly identical. 


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


  - The blanket and the Pot Paraphernalia were created with Organica.

  - the 'head' of the sleeper is really only a ball with hairs.

  - The 'bubble' was also done in Organica, by using a very simple Mandelbrot
  as a template. I flattened the resulting object later in C4D and put a 
  flat disc on which the last rendering was mapped in the biggest one.

  - The fractal texture on the wall was rendered using Itiera (a great Public 
  Domain Mandelbrot Set generator). 

  - The girl in the same poster on the first dream level is from a belgian 
  cigarette add btw, but she looks great)

  - All in all I must have rendered like 20 'finished' pictures (and even
  more test renderings). Some had the lamp on, some had sun streaming in
  (with nasty shadows from the bubbles on the wall :\, And I always switched
  the colours and the covers of the books, and also the position of various 
  objects.

  - The rendering was done with Anti-Alias 4x4 on edges and colours, 
  hard and soft shadows, refraction and reflections on.

All in all, I don't really like it myself, but I like the concept, so I 
submit it anyway.

Enjoy,
Sammy