Uploaded October 2013 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Created by Arthur Stammet in October 2013.
Soundtrack composed by Arthur Stammet in 1987 and remixed in 2013.
This fractal animation has been rendered in Mandelbulb 3D, a freeware 3D fractal generator programmed by the fractalforums.com user Jesse. It is a long flight through a delicately morphing complex fractal world. This hybrid fractal combines a Menger Cube with a Mandelbulb and its exploration shows its infinitely big and small complexity, flying through this world and "Menger-Windows", allowing to explore miniaturized versions of this same world. Morphing in order to close or open entries for the bulbs, created or destroyed by morphings, this world isn't at all stable and just exists for the programmer's virtual software camera, following paths, which have been imagined by their creator.
This footage, which has been used in two more complex films ("Karl Menger meeting Gustave Eiffel in a Time Machine": youtu.be/iyN2OG6VT6Y and "Organized Chaos" : youtu.be/Xg0lBeuNChE), shows in this version the entire, uninterrupted voyage, slightly tweaked with rays and sparkles in the reflection-bulbs-sequence.
The soundtrack is a long improvisation on an analogue Korg-Synthesizer, mounted onto a rhythmical or atmospheric background. This tape music study, recorded in 1987, has been remixed for the purposes of this movie in Premiere CS5.
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Created by Arthur Stammet in October 2013.
Soundtrack composed by Arthur Stammet in 1987 and remixed in 2013.
This fractal animation has been rendered in Mandelbulb 3D, a freeware 3D fractal generator programmed by the fractalforums.com user Jesse. It is a long flight through a delicately morphing complex fractal world. This hybrid fractal combines a Menger Cube with a Mandelbulb and its exploration shows its infinitely big and small complexity, flying through this world and "Menger-Windows", allowing to explore miniaturized versions of this same world. Morphing in order to close or open entries for the bulbs, created or destroyed by morphings, this world isn't at all stable and just exists for the programmer's virtual software camera, following paths, which have been imagined by their creator.
This footage, which has been used in two more complex films ("Karl Menger meeting Gustave Eiffel in a Time Machine": youtu.be/iyN2OG6VT6Y and "Organized Chaos" : youtu.be/Xg0lBeuNChE), shows in this version the entire, uninterrupted voyage, slightly tweaked with rays and sparkles in the reflection-bulbs-sequence.
The soundtrack is a long improvisation on an analogue Korg-Synthesizer, mounted onto a rhythmical or atmospheric background. This tape music study, recorded in 1987, has been remixed for the purposes of this movie in Premiere CS5.
#fractal #mandelbulb #mandelbulb3d #mandelbulbmaniacs #alien #digitalart #arthurstammet #arthurstammetmovie #arthurstammetfractal #mograph #experimental #soundtrack #artstation #iteration #mathematics







![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)


