Uploaded October 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
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 Pullman's quote "When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all [one's] 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 listener's 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.
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 Pullman's quote "When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all [one's] 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 listener's 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.
