Sierpinski Temple detail by MakinMagic

Created using Ultrafractal.

Daily Deviation

Given 2008-01-17

Sierpinski Temple detail by ~MakinMagic is fractal artwork on a grand scale. The artist has created, a 3-D view into ancient times. The fractal architecture is outstanding. Not only does the temple have great lighting, shadows, and incredible depth and texture, but seems to have the illusion of reflective flood waters, beneath it. I kept staring at it, trying to decide on it's perspective! ~ The Suggestor writes: "This is simply amazing. The artist shows great skill with UF to pull off something, this flawlessly!" ( Suggested by monochromatic-stains and Featured by Sophquest )

graphicMADness Featured By Owner Dec 27, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Amazing! And I'm watching Ancient Aliens as I look at this!!

Gatorau Featured By Owner May 5, 2011

That is just an exquisite piece of artwork.

MakinMagic Featured By Owner May 5, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thanks very much

bermarte Featured By Owner Apr 28, 2011 Artist

Hi!
would it be possible to create a gpu-shader for this one (something similar to k-ifs)?
thanx in advance!
(:

MakinMagic Featured By Owner Apr 28, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Short answer: not really as a K-IFS but yes as a full RIFS (recurrent IFS) *but* the algorithm used in my formula for UF is not really suitable as it has too much conditional branching - I have an idea how to get around that issue but at the moment am working on about 4 other projects so it'll be a while before I try it.

However you can probably get *similar* results using plain K-IFS which of course lends itself more to GPU coding.
One issue with the Sierpinski Temple is that the highest level domains of the individual transforms overlap which means that K-IFS cannot be used to get the exact result - in addition it's using conditional testing to restrict certain combinations of transforms which can be done for K-IFS but it would take a while to decode what I did to convert it to a K-IFS method, plus doing so would again increase the number of conditional branches required.

lordkorv Featured By Owner Feb 3, 2011

dude.... it looks like a mega city in hindu art! this is amazing! how did you do it?

MakinMagic Featured By Owner Feb 3, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

It was created using a 3D IFS escape-time formula for Ultra Fractal.

mightybearrr Featured By Owner Feb 7, 2010 Hobbyist General Artist

holy fucking shit

i dunno whether this motivates me to make more fractal art or just give up :[

MakinMagic Featured By Owner Feb 8, 2010 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thanks

I suggest you stick at it !

mightybearrr Featured By Owner Feb 8, 2010 Hobbyist General Artist

ill try!

turon-marcano Featured By Owner Oct 18, 2008

Fantastic!!

MakinMagic Featured By Owner Oct 19, 2008 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thank you

sevenofeleven Featured By Owner Aug 31, 2008

I wonder what the pigeons look like in the temple?

Looks great.

MakinMagic Featured By Owner Aug 31, 2008 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thanks.

Hmmm - a 3D IFS pigeon - now there's a thought !

Spiderwebwings Featured By Owner Jan 23, 2008

_{Just thinking more...you know what this reminds me of?

A scene from 'Ghost in the Shell', the second one...}

MakinMagic Featured By Owner Jan 23, 2008 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Oh,

Sorry I don't know it !

Spiderwebwings Featured By Owner Jan 23, 2008

_{Its very very good. and there's a scene in a big city that sort of reminds me of this.}

Velvet--Glove Featured By Owner Jan 20, 2008

That's a pretty unusual and cool render, Dave, with an awesome architectural feel to it. I think you judged the colours well, with that mellow looking stone appearance. Well done, and congrats on the DD!

I can't help but wonder... did this take long to render? It looks pretty complicated, and the whole canvas is covered, so I imagine it took a good while? I'm just curious.

MakinMagic Featured By Owner Jan 20, 2008 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thanks.
It took around 2 to 3 hours to render I think (at 3840*2880).

Velvet--Glove Featured By Owner Jan 20, 2008

Oh, that's not bad at all! I thought that, being a dense, 3D style image, it would be pretty intense and require a lot of computation/time. Shows you how much I know about these things, doesn't it, hehe.

Thanks for the info, very interesting.

dbutler1986 Featured By Owner Jan 19, 2008

This is absolutely incredible. I've been in love with fractals since I was a freshman in high school, and I was really happy to find such a rich repository of "arty" fractals here at dA (as opposed to the ones I saw more often before, which were more to illustrate scientific or mathematical concepts than to be pieces of art.) I think this art form is overlooked and undervalued by artists and by scientists, even with its current popularity.

I also really like how you've taken such a 'simple' fractal set like Sierpinski and made such a detailed and complex image.

MakinMagic Featured By Owner Jan 19, 2008 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thanks - it's a true 3D fractal, the base is a Sierpinski carpet made of 10 transforms (3 wide and 4 deep with the centre two missing) and 2 transforms above, the lower one being inverted.

Fraxa Featured By Owner Jan 18, 2008

You've got the hang of it then!