DESCRIPTION:
Optic Alchemy (Ian Medley and myself) started vjaying in the last millennium.
We put together multi-layered collages using collected images and video clips to use as video backdrops then we'd these mix up with other synch-sound stuff as live projections to go with whatever the DJs or bands were playing.
These are all the fractal zooms I made in 1999 starting with a DOS program called Fractint to generate the zooms frame by frame then using Adobe Premiere to add effects.
The first 2 zooms are from the most famous fractal, Mandelbrot, the next is from the well know Julia set (which is actually the mandelbrot viewed from another dimensional plane), the fourth is a less common fractal discovered by Lyapunov and the last three are all variations on the Julia set discovered by a mathemetitian called Barnsley.
Some of them took weeks to generate!
Each starts with the pure zooms, in then back out, then various effects are added: mirroring, spin motions and overlapping blending layers.
There was soundtrack so I've added some early unreleased tracks by Celt Islam from around 2005
(Freq Nomad, Invasion, Dubbz, Khip, Salaam, The Job and Stalaag17 Dubb)
Before anyone comments that this stuff looks a bit low-res and dated please note that the original videos were was made on old PCs with something like 0.4GHz processors!