Torsten Stier

Statement

My video chasing daylight is a sequence of animated fractal visualisations embedded in a musical environment that also determines the rhythm of the image sequences. The aesthetics should be self-explanatory. I added a short text section to the bridges version of the film, where I point out a not so obvious mathematical connection I used here, although it is a numerical approximation and not a clean analytic solution - the synchronisation of moving images and music. Other components shown in the film are documented for example in Modular Mandelbulb; https://www.imaginary.org/gallery/a-modular-mandelbulb Mandelbox in PseudoKleinian order; https://www.imaginary.org/gallery/the-mandelbox-in-pseudokleinian-grid I use AI in several ways. Translation and research are examples. For fractals I do not use it yet, mainly because I can not get mathematical insights from AI content. This video is 100% human engineering. Torsten Stier soundtrack by Scott Buckley, www.scottbuckley.com.au

Films

The short film "chasing daylight" is some concept moovie. It maps the rhythm pattern of the music as accurately as possible in shape transformations of the shown 3d fractals. The text I added to the movie: "The basic time in music was measured at around 1.125 seconds. Three times build a bar. Assuming 30 frames per second one time is around 33.75 frames long. For a keyframe animation integers are needed for subframes, so a sequence of 34 and 33 subframes was created in a spreadsheet. Never really accurate but never more than one frame away. This is the basis here for the synchronisation of moving images and music." Links about some of the 3d fractals https://www.imaginary.org/gallery/the-mandelbox-in-pseudokleinian-grid https://www.imaginary.org/gallery/a-modular-mandelbulb soundtrack under CC-BY 4.0 license by Scott Buckley, www.scottbuckley.com.au