Mandelbulber Sequence 01

Teaching myself how to use Mandelbulber. The image below took about 7 hours to render on my Macbook Pro 13" with 2.8 GHZ quad core.

It's a still from the animation below.

Monstrous 4k res Mandelbulb

4k Mandelbulb Render Reflections set too high

Short 800x600 Render on Youtube:

Animation of the zoom:

If I had more compute power I'd render it at higher resolution and 50 frames per keyframe. Here are the .fract files:

Original Fract File for the animation shown - no specular reflection set

Revised Fract File for the still image  - using 0.5 reflection settings

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