Uploaded June 2017 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
Fractal art is the opposite of design.
When playing around with fractals, shapes start to emerge, and when they start to resemble something - anything - I play with that. For instance, if something looks like a mountain, I will color it like a mountain, and light it with a low sun, or a hazy atmosphere.
This is important because the human eye will connect with something it thinks it knows - but it's different.
The danger of fractal art is that it becomes so abstract that your mind can't comprehend it at all.
julius-horsthuis.com
music:
Birds of Paradise - Totally Tubular
Fractal art is the opposite of design.
When playing around with fractals, shapes start to emerge, and when they start to resemble something - anything - I play with that. For instance, if something looks like a mountain, I will color it like a mountain, and light it with a low sun, or a hazy atmosphere.
This is important because the human eye will connect with something it thinks it knows - but it's different.
The danger of fractal art is that it becomes so abstract that your mind can't comprehend it at all.
julius-horsthuis.com
music:
Birds of Paradise - Totally Tubular
![[3D FRACTAL] Rogue Fractal](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FstdSGZ7Hq8/mqdefault.jpg "[3D FRACTAL] Rogue Fractal
Rogue Fractal is a compilation of my experimental clips on Facebook and Instagram (first part) and my recent fractal shorts (second part)
All edited of course to the brilliant Rogue Bagel by Ott.")
![What Geologic Time feels like [3D Fractal] Geologic Time](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/G6lZJvEDQI4/mqdefault.jpg "What Geologic Time feels like [3D Fractal] Geologic Time
Fractals can be amazing, but they have their way of dazzling you with more visual detail then you can possibly absorb, or using fast changing colors and music to keep the mind entertained.
What I tried to do here is to slow down time so much that the fractal morphs almost unperceivably , while keeping visual detail fresh and clear enough to keep your eyes darting around the (big, 1080p) screen for a while. I believe that this way, we are more focused and this state opens and stimulates the mind in a different way.
Give me eight and a half minutes of your time, and I hope to bring you a different and profound experience.
By Julius Horsthuis
Music: “Gerudo Valley” by Koji Kondo stretched 400%")
![[3D FRACTAL] Emergence](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/G8qZvzv5ABg/mqdefault.jpg "[3D FRACTAL] Emergence
A series of Fractal organic landscapes with geometric structures. Between the organic and the geometric, interesting things happen.
www.julius-horsthuis.com
All rendered in Mandelbulb3D
Music:
The Bedraggling by Tipper")
![[3D FRACTAL] ZAVOLOKA - Polonyna (Official Music Video)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GoXl2_GPTyY/mqdefault.jpg "[3D FRACTAL] ZAVOLOKA - Polonyna (Official Music Video)
Video by Julius Horsthuis
http://www.julius-horsthuis.com/
Music by Zavoloka
Polonyna taken from Syngonia, released on Kvitnu 2017
http://www.zavoloka.com/
Female model: Gemma Lee Farrell")
![[3D FRACTAL] 4D Mirrors](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GthkQcoaBHc/mqdefault.jpg "[3D FRACTAL] 4D Mirrors
Black and White fractal short film inspired by the concept of 4-dimensional mirrors.
Music is Brain Five - Beyond Chaos by Michael Stearns, written for our fulldome collaboration piece Beyond Chaos.")
![[3D FRACTAL TRIP] Great Conscious Barrier](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HqUY7pTroyI/mqdefault.jpg "[3D FRACTAL TRIP] Great Conscious Barrier
Since 2016, a fifth of all the coral in the world has perished.
If the trend continues, all remaining reefs will disappear in the next 40 years.
A Fractal Fantasy of Coral.
by http://www.julius-horsthuis.com/
Music: Melodysheep - First Moments https://melodysheep.bandcamp.com/track/first-moments
rendered in Mandelbulb3D")
