Procedural cities from the Mandalay fractal

[mdlincoln]

http://www.creativeapplications.net/javascript-2/the-imaginary-kingdom-of-aurullia/

[willvarfar]

Absolutely gorgeous! :D

A while back it occurred to me that its easy to combine distance-estimated (DE) fractal rendering with conventional 3D models.

Imagine how cool it would be flying around this kind of alien-city-scape in real-time in your browser, shooting at monsters!

I found that right now, only simple tunnels render at good-enough speed to be combined with classic 3D models and DE-based collision detection. My Ludum Dare game entry based on it:

http://williame.github.io/LD/33/index.html

The future will bring fast-enough fractal rendering! :D

EDIT to add: well worth looking at: http://www.shadertoy.com and http://www.fractalforums.com/images-showcase-(rate-my-fracta...

[throwupper247 → willvarfar]

For a game you could precalc the collision boxes as polygons or whatever your models use.

[icc97 → willvarfar]

that's an awesome piece of work

[smoorman1024]

An instance of Fractal Lab you can play with:

http://hirnsohle.de/test/fractalLab/

[hcrisp]

More impressive fractal landscapes using Fragmentarium here:https://www.flickr.com/photos/syntopia/favorites

[neppo]

When I saw these, the alien city from "Rendezvous with Rama" immediately came into my head.

[vosper]

These are really beautiful. Has anyone here ever delved into creating fractals with the various tools that are out there?

I don't have a strong math background, but I've always thought these things are wonderful. I'd be interested in creating my own, but I don't really know where to start (I don't want to learn the math, or write a renderer; I don't have the time).

[TeMPOraL]

Beautiful. Ah, the cities we wish we would have :).

I wonder though what's the state of the art for generating real-looking Western cities - i.e. the unplanned mess we live in. Some fractal base and then random outgrowths maybe?

[pavel_lishin → TeMPOraL]

Well, there's this: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=3301

And there's another project that I can't seem to find right now, lost in my bookmarks or RSS feeds.

[anc84]

Direct link to just the images (warning, disturbing scrolling behaviour): http://sub.blue/aurullia

[gedy]

Oh this is beautiful, nice work. Many (wow 12 already) years ago I did something related with iterated function systems and custom code. It was extremely tedious however, and used POV-Ray as renderer:

https://vimeo.com/105317159

Again, lovely work.

[SixSigma]

This video from Mandelbulb Maniacs popped up on my facebook today.

https://www.facebook.com/Atomicat/videos/10156387634450402/

[nekopa]

I wonder if this is how we will eventually create cities using nanobots. Give them a finely tuned fractal formula, and let them go.

Who says grey goo has to be goo?

[sp332 → nekopa]

But after a nanobot fails, it just become dust that casually slides through your cell walls.

[IanCal]

The link has a trailing slash on for me, which results in a 403, removing the trailing slash works.

Gorgeous work.

[douche]

Cool. Has kind of an H.R. Geiger vibe to it.