“Flames”
So at the weekend, I was bored, and through random trawling of the internet I came across these things called "flames". Art created from maths, also known as fractals. Ok, so I already knew about fractals, Mandelbrot probably being one of the most famous, but these were different. Further digging revealed these things called "sheep", another variant on the aforementioned names, but these were being generated using distributed computing techniques.
I grabbed the software needed to produce these things, Apophysis and flam3, and began to play. Then I went digging around in Electric Sheep to see what more I could find. Well, the final product can be seen below as very scaled down versions. My full renders are 4960x3508 pixels in size and took an hour to render on a Dual Xeon 3.2GHz Dell Poweredge server.
At present, as I write infact, the server is processing a 40 second movie of the 3rd "flame" with an approximate total render time of 16 hours.
