Happy Pi day everyone! Henrik has created a fractal material type with various parameters you can adjust and customize to render. (Just a little look at some of the power under the KeyShot hood.) The .bip file download is available below. Grab it and let's see your fractal creations! Here is a quick screen grab of one worked up with a translucent material. More variation can be seen on the KeyShot blog (http://www.keyshot.com/keyshot-pi-day-fractal-download/2013/).
Absolutely beautiful, it looks like a 4D Quaternion Julia Set fractal...
Truly can't wait to play with this tomorrow...
Cheers
J
I swear I hadn't read the blog... I'm a huge fan of Kai Kraus, used to build these using a plug-in he created called Frax4D
biomechanic ... you are officially a NERD! And yes, it is a 4D Quaternion Julia Set fractal. KeyShot only visualizes 3 of the dimensions.
You can edit the fractal material to your liking, and then apply the material of your liking to it, once you got the fractal you like.
super cool! gotta play with that :)
well done Henrik!
;D Yeah, I'm king of the nerds, think Leonard from the Big Bang Theory...
Thomas, Is it possible to apply any material type once the fractal has been created ?
Cheers
J
Thanks for this !
Here you go.
Happy Fractal day ;D
Tim
Polyamide fractal.
Dries
Gads, Dries! That last shot looks like a purge from one of my plastic injection molding machines, back when I was in the manufacturing business. Thank God that's behind me now! Sold it all 10 years ago and never looked back! But man, I'll never forget the smell of a "nice hot purge"!
Bill G
Bill, natural PA purges can have a useful second life as a lighting fixture. ;D
Dries
speaking of fractals.... look this pretty neat video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4wy_oc6Y3A
watching that to the sound of the new Atoms for Peace album is a trip.
Well - I cannot get it to work... ???
When I open fractal314.bip I just get a blank render window....
Pointers anyone please
Are you using KeyShot 4?
Super cool stuff!
Hi Thomas - yes I am
When I open the file, what should I see ?
J
This:
Well I just see the grey environment, nothing else
J
Im using 4.0.74 Pro
J
Are you using 4.0.74, and doing a simple File > Open?
Well that answers that. Is it in the scene tree?
Yeah, it's in the scene tree and when I go to the material I can adjust parameter settings but nothings visible...
When I rotate around the scene, nothing is there
I just give up...
J
Can I just say I'm using a legitimate copy of KS... I can send you my serial number if it is required
Im running KS on a Windows 7 64bit platform
Gotta admit this is the first time I've ever seen a blank render viewport on file open... :'(
J
Check the scale of the object, and the camera distance.
Tried all of that, nothing works, still just an empty scene, visually anyway...
J
Can somebody open the file and re-save it, then upload it for me to download please.
Just clutching at straws here...
Thanks
J
Here you have it.
Strange...opens just fine on my machine using the exact same KS4 version...
I changed the settings a bit. maybe that helps.
It does seem like the scale changes when reopening. The scale of the fractal model should be at '2'.
Dries
Hi Dries, thanks, but it didn't work
I just see a blank render window, rotating, changing scale and/or camera distance does nothing at all
Not a fractal in sight...
I'm beginning to think it is a KeyShot conspiracy... ;)
J
Re-installed KeyShot...
Still nothing
Luxion please help...
J
r u on 32bit or 64 biomechanic ?
Martin
Hi Martin
Im running 64bit
J
Darn - I've looked at the bip file too, cant see any of the settings that might be goofing it, it forces me to close a session so it can load in, other than locking the aspect ratio it don't seem to do anything untoward ... I am at a loss here
sorry
Martin
Can somebody from Luxion not help please ?
Thanks
J
@TpwUK - you will need to double click on the object. Then you can edit the shape of the fractal.
@biomechanic: Obviously the object is in the scene, otherwise it would be in the tree. Right click on the object inside the tree, and select "Look at". Then move the camera closer. I hope this solves it for you. Can't think of anything else at the moment.
Ok in the scene tree do you have the object? If so right click on it and click edit material. The fractal has a bunch of slider move them around it should work.
Other than that I don't know what to do.
good luck.
Tim
Hey
Thanks everybody for the suggestions... got it working now, but only in KeyShot 4 32bit...
I've done 2 clean re-installs of KeyShot 64bit and it simply will not work... every other scene file I have opens and displays apart from this one.
I have no idea what's going on, I imagine Henrik might have an idea, but who knows...
Can someone tell me if the 32bit version is slower at rendering than 64bit - or is it just that the 64bit version can handle larger data sets and that's it...
J
It is quite strange that the fractal does not work on your computer. What kind of CPU do you have? We have seen some issues with AMD processors. The 32 bit version should be almost as fast. Besides the ability to use more memory 64 bit software has a slightly more efficient code structure, so it will generally give you a small performance boost. For the fractals 32 bit should be fine though and you can run KeyShot 32 and 64 bit side by side.
-- Henrik
I added 2 objects, and applied point light deffuse material to them.
Henrik : Well, I've got an AMD processor, so it's starting to make sense... Might the issue be with the Floating Point Unit since I assume your fractal requires a lot of number crunching ?
Do you think you might be able to get it to work on AMD 64bit processors - or are you not going to develop it any further ?
Anyway, managed to squeeze some renders out of KS4 32bit....