Clockwork by zy0rg

The never stopping gears of xaos machine.

My first attempt in fractal animation. Hope you like it.

Long exposure may harm your brain.

Musical background: Shpongle

RPwombat Featured By Owner Dec 31, 2017 Hobbyist Digital Artist

awesome!!!!

zy0rg Featured By Owner Jan 9, 2018 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thanks

Dmitry-Bitus Featured By Owner Nov 14, 2017

zy0rg Featured By Owner Nov 16, 2017 Hobbyist Digital Artist

thanks!

Sabine62 Featured By Owner Dec 25, 2016

Came across this only today, and it's fantastic!

zy0rg Featured By Owner Dec 30, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thank you!

Sabine62 Featured By Owner Dec 30, 2016

Welcome!

WascawwyWabbit Featured By Owner Sep 11, 2016

Awesome!!!! This is a real mind blower.

zy0rg Featured By Owner Sep 12, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thank you! Doing my best

Applied-Science Featured By Owner Apr 29, 2016 Hobbyist

Hello! I was browsing for something similar to this to use for something I'm working on and had two questions: a) would you mind my using it if I credit it back to you and b) any way you can create one more, with no borders and in a widescreen format (preferably 1280 x 720)?

If not, no sweat. You've still done such a beautiful job.

zy0rg Featured By Owner May 6, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Hi and thanks.
a) I don't mind if you use it for any non-commercial purposes.
b) It is possible but it would take a lot of time. And unfortunately I don't have much free time lately.

Applied-Science Featured By Owner May 26, 2016 Hobbyist

Hey no sweat! I figure it's worth an ask.

Thank you very much!

chetje Featured By Owner Jan 17, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Wonderful first animation !!

zy0rg Featured By Owner Jan 18, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thank you!

BhaktaArt Featured By Owner Jan 10, 2016 Student Digital Artist

First attempt is amazing ,any tips please .

zy0rg Featured By Owner Jan 11, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thank you!

Do you need tips on how to make animation, or how to make the fractal pattern?
To make animation I've rendered separate animation frames (around 30 AFAIR) and then combined them using Photoshop. Shouldn't be too hard if you're familiar with animations in PS.
The pattern is a bit more complex: bubble>julian>hypertile2>bipolar>linear>foci. After you make the pattern you may simply rotate the julian to make the animation frames.
You may ask people in Aposhack chatroom for more detailed instructions.

BhaktaArt Featured By Owner Jan 16, 2016 Student Digital Artist

Thanks i will see what i can do with your advice .

hubertroguski Featured By Owner Nov 11, 2015

Cool idea!

zy0rg Featured By Owner Nov 12, 2015 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thanks!

MajikkanBeingsUnite Featured By Owner Oct 30, 2015 Hobbyist General Artist

Catguy:

It's one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen...

zy0rg Featured By Owner Nov 12, 2015 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thank you for support!

SiennaBlue Featured By Owner Dec 24, 2014 Hobbyist General Artist

This is awesome! Nice work!

Thebrattyprincess Featured By Owner Aug 14, 2014

Beautiful body of work

skullzapper Featured By Owner Mar 27, 2014 Hobbyist Interface Designer

This is very cool.

skulkey Featured By Owner Jan 30, 2014 Professional Digital Artist

very trippy.

$:iconamatterofract:$

AmatteroFract Featured By Owner Sep 1, 2013 Hobbyist Photographer

Fantastic.

Allevity Featured By Owner Aug 6, 2013

Very nice.

Is there a way to let the gears move along? (I guess their radius would need to change accordingly)

Technomancer-T Featured By Owner Jul 25, 2013

looks a bit like my brain cogs,when enjoying chocolate-sweet

TEHEK Featured By Owner Jul 15, 2013

This is awesome! great job!

Bellmoore Featured By Owner Mar 31, 2013

Beautifully intricate, awesome work.
Gears of Mechanus.

zy0rg Featured By Owner Apr 6, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thanks!

mormonbookworm Featured By Owner Mar 20, 2013 Hobbyist Writer

By the way, my teacher just used this as a link in math class. Thanks for making math fun!

zy0rg Featured By Owner Mar 22, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Good to know that my fractals can be used for educational purposes. Thanks for the info!

And btw math has always been fun. My input is minimal here.

mormonbookworm Featured By Owner Mar 22, 2013 Hobbyist Writer

Some classes in it for me are better than others, this one would be much better.

Guss7777 Featured By Owner Nov 13, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

This is awesome!

SGeier Featured By Owner Sep 27, 2012

So where do I get a tshirt with that printed on it (moving, of course)...?

zy0rg Featured By Owner Sep 30, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

moving ones are sold out. sorry.

Penguin-Pete Featured By Owner Jul 4, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

Jaw-dropping. I have Xaos too, and I can't imagine how you did this.

zy0rg Featured By Owner Jul 5, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I've made it with Apophysis, calculator and a bit of satanic magic.

thanks!

Penguin-Pete Featured By Owner Jul 8, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

Well, thank you! Today I discovered Apophysis. By "xaos" I thought you meant the Xaos fractal engine.

zy0rg Featured By Owner Jul 9, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Yup, I've used Xaos some while ago too. But here by "xaos" I meant the xaos from Apophysis.

Have fun with Apo!

wolfbeast Featured By Owner Jun 8, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

I agree with the background music

zy0rg Featured By Owner Jun 11, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Yeah, I've been totally shpongled

FredKepler Featured By Owner Jun 2, 2012

OK, so I'm guessing that there's a cog centered at every local min (or max,) and that they are slightly off-center to allow the "stretching"... but what determines the number of teeth on each cog? I just can't wrap my brain around that--or how cool this is! Nicely done.

zy0rg Featured By Owner Jun 3, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

One central wheel was round and not "stretched". The rest are its copies aligned using polar coordinates in hyperbolic plane.
There are two kinds of wheels - 10-cog (rotating clockwise) and 8-cog (rotating counter-clockwise). 8-cog wheels are actually also "copied" from 10-cog ones.

...But actually the picture is not as complex as it may seem.

Thanks for commenting!