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Fractals —
Hey anyone know any good fractal generating tutorials?
And one other thing — I opened a c4d9 file in c4d8 b/c I could use radiosity on it, and now when i open it in v9 all the textures are gone.
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Your fractals question was pretty generic and broad…what are you trying to do?
As for the other question, I’m surprised you were able to open it in R8 at all. Cinema files are not backwards compatible…
Mark Simpson
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Yeah, you can open r9 files in r8 — but it kind of goes to hell. Textures get lost; and it doesn’t support certain things.
fractals — how can i explain them — a sphere with a sphere on each point of the polygon shape and those spheres with spheres on each point of the polygon shape — goes on and on and on forever..They are infinite mathematical equations of the chaos theory — AE FLAME generates them in after effects and they look pretty cool but a 3d one is really what i’m searching for.
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I know what fractals are…but there are million kinds, and even moore ways to use them….for instance noise is often fractal based…You used AE as an example……the fractal noise effect is fractal based, as is the lightning plug in, psunami, and many others…..
I would guess that cinemas noise generators are fractal based…..
As far as having cinema create actual objects that are fractal based, that would quickly overwhelm your ram and processing power, unless you could limit the itinterations….
You might take a look at Jenna, as it will likely let you simulate what you described…..
I’ve long been hoping that a plug for cinema would one day be developed that would create tree/vein like fractals……fractals that would grow over time….Ideally fractal based splines, the could then be extruded/swept……
You could do all kinds of cool effects with such a generator…like growing roots, or mold, or growing veins, or cool borders, veins, etc…
Mark Simpson
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Here is a page that has formulas for the more popular ones. You should be able to create some Xpresso/TP groups to express these fairly easily, especially with particle positions.
But I would program in a limit for the iterations so It doesn’t get out of control.
https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/fractals/
Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com
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