Uploaded April 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
This movie has entirely been created by Arthur Stammet.
It tells the story of two interstellar light-beings, persecuted by a destructive red plasma. Forced to leave their initial fractal planet-spaceship, morphed down to an infinity of little particles by the plasma, they have to explore the universe in order to find a new, secure home. Flying around the Milky Way Galaxy, they finally find what they have been looking for: a stable place in the middle of a complex, heavily morphing fractal cosmos. After having been ejected from numerous unstable habitations, morphed up and down by the plasma, they finally come together, unifying their strength in the middle part of a structure, which cannot be anymore affected by the actions of their enemy.
This movie is a tribute to Benoit Mandelbrot, whose works proved that infinity may be found everywhere: in the macro-cosmos as well as in the micro-cosmos, entire worlds infinitely repeated in a complex world.
The fractals have been rendered with Mandelbulb 3D, the excellent software which has been programmed by the user Jesse and allowed me to tell this story by changing the right parameters.
The titles, the animated panoramas, the "planets" and the red plasma have been created with BluffTitler and Bixorama.
The soundtrack has been added to the film by improvising on a Roland V-Synth and the PPG Wavegenerator App on my iPad.
All these elements have been brought together and mounted with some effects (lights, sparkles...) in Adobe Premiere CS5.
Stills of the video (the storybook) have been published on flickr:
flickr.com/photos/arthurstammet/sets/72157633541675572
The movie may also be seen, together with the other contributions of the competition, on fractalforums.com:
fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=13988
It has been evaluated on 68.88888 % (4 stars) by 18 members.
This movie has entirely been created by Arthur Stammet.
It tells the story of two interstellar light-beings, persecuted by a destructive red plasma. Forced to leave their initial fractal planet-spaceship, morphed down to an infinity of little particles by the plasma, they have to explore the universe in order to find a new, secure home. Flying around the Milky Way Galaxy, they finally find what they have been looking for: a stable place in the middle of a complex, heavily morphing fractal cosmos. After having been ejected from numerous unstable habitations, morphed up and down by the plasma, they finally come together, unifying their strength in the middle part of a structure, which cannot be anymore affected by the actions of their enemy.
This movie is a tribute to Benoit Mandelbrot, whose works proved that infinity may be found everywhere: in the macro-cosmos as well as in the micro-cosmos, entire worlds infinitely repeated in a complex world.
The fractals have been rendered with Mandelbulb 3D, the excellent software which has been programmed by the user Jesse and allowed me to tell this story by changing the right parameters.
The titles, the animated panoramas, the "planets" and the red plasma have been created with BluffTitler and Bixorama.
The soundtrack has been added to the film by improvising on a Roland V-Synth and the PPG Wavegenerator App on my iPad.
All these elements have been brought together and mounted with some effects (lights, sparkles...) in Adobe Premiere CS5.
Stills of the video (the storybook) have been published on flickr:
flickr.com/photos/arthurstammet/sets/72157633541675572
The movie may also be seen, together with the other contributions of the competition, on fractalforums.com:
fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=13988
It has been evaluated on 68.88888 % (4 stars) by 18 members.
![Many Ways Out - 3D Fractal Animation
Fractal animation created by Arthur Stammet in october 2013.
Soundtrack based on excerpts from a ballet-music composed by Arthur Stammet in 1991.
This fractal animation is a dynamic meditation on Philip Pullmans quote When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you dont take are snuffed out like candles, as if theyd never existed. At that moment all [ones] choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing.
Unable to decide what should be the very best exit out of a Menger Cube, the complex rotation of this 360° Panorama, just shows an infinity of possible exits. No decision has been token at the end and the centered, calm and meditative Zen-atmosphere, brought to the listeners ears at the beginning, returns after the unanswered question. Nothing really happened!
The animation has been realized with BluffTitler and Bixorama. The FX Reflection Rotation turns in a complex way around the X, Y and Z axis, animated with an Overhauser Spline. This very interesting approach is possible thanks to the implementation of DDS panoramas, used as reflections in BluttTitler and rendered with the 360° view camera in Mandelbulb 3D. Great thanks to Jesse for having offered this possibility in his Mandelbulb 3D amazing software. On the contrary to Quicktime panoramas, animated BluffTitler panoramas have the great advantage of not stopping the rotation, when reaching the floor or the ceiling, forcing a rotation around the Y axis instead of continuing to change the angle.
The eletronic soundtrack has been realized by the author with some digital synthesizers (Casio CZ5000, Yamaha FB-01 and DX-11), driven in large parts by an ATARI-Software (The Composer) programmed by Arthur Stammet. Many Ways Out - 3D Fractal Animation](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/v_gdnQkc2rg/mqdefault.jpg)









