We wouldn’t blame you for thinking that Julius Horsthuis spent weeks designing and animating his sci-fi short, Fraktaal, using 3D software. But as the artist reveals, “It so happens that I’m a lazy animator.” So he instead relied on complex mathematical fractal patterns to automatically generate the alien worlds and cities visited in his film.
https://gizmodo.com/the-never-ending-descent-into-this-infinite-fractal-cit-1798302716
We’ve seen Horsthuis’ use of fractals in CG animation before, but in the aptly-named, Fraktaal, it’s easy to forget you’re actually watching the results of mathematical algorithms spitting out random data. At what point will the next Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster be just a mouse click away?
[Vimeo via The Awesomer]
