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Not quite VR, but there exists someone's personal hobby 3D fractal viewer that has an absolutely bananas level of polish: http://sub.blue/fractal-lab http://su

• tapatio 10y ago
  That is amazing. Thanks for sharing.
• SOLAR_FIELDS 10y ago
  I believe that doing this for procedural generated games along the lines of No Man's Sky is the true future of where we can go for randomly generated worlds. Since a lot of planetary formation patterns we observe here on earth follow fractal-esque patterns, this would be a great application for a powerful generator like this one.
  • frou_dh 10y ago
    The risk with procedurally generated stuff is that it can feel adequate but soulless to the game player. There can be a hybrid approach where, at development time, a bunch of procedurally generated assets are cranked out, and then a human artist hand-picks the best specimen and uses it as a starting point for a manually created asset.
• nitrogen 10y ago
  Was Fractal Lab ever made available to the public?
  • frou_dh 10y ago
    Apparently the author was involved with an iOS app, but from this description it sounds like it's not the same codebase: http://fract.al/team http://fract.al/team
  • djaychela 10y ago
    Author says no at the bottom of the video... there's something similar (and more basic) here: http://hirnsohle.de/test/fractalLab/ http://hirnsohle.de/test/fractalLab/ I always find it a pity when I see something as inspiring as this that's not available to use (even without any support), but I guess that's the author's prerogative... (sadly!)
  • pault 10y ago
    I don't understand how someone could spend so much time on an obviously excellent product and not want to show it off to the world.