"Stone Pyramids" | dIFS Pong with @mandelsage! #012

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Continuing from @mandelsage 's #011 which you can see here, I loaded up the parameters and opened the navigator to see what was what.

Just changing the menger1-IFS iterations from 3 to 4 made this awesome mandala-like structure;

Definitely something I want to look at more in future to render something from!

But for our pong, I wanted to get something a bit different, so I kept playing. Delving deeper into the fractal I found these great little rose-like structures and rendered this out;

I like it, but still didn't feel that I'd changed enough from the original params, so I didn't stop here. I tweaked a few settings on the other two formulae, and found this;

There; the same camera framing as the roses, but with different shaped structures. I applied a map (a picture of some bark) for the diffuse color, used a light map on one of the lights, tweaked the ambiance and dynamic fog, and applied some depth of field to give a sense of scale.

Here are the parameters;

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{Titel: stone pyramids}