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The Splendor of Color: A Kaleidoscope Video

These spectacular videos are two full hours of crystal clear, colorful, detailed, and ever-changing kaleidoscopes with modern, relaxing background music. Created for enjoyment on your PC or away from the computer on large HDTVs in home theaters. Take a break from the noise and haste of daily life and play 120 minutes of calm, gorgeous, continuously changing fractal kaleidoscopes. Give your eyes a bright and colorful reward while you relax and enjoy the ride as endless patterns and color combinations slowly rotate and evolve in a hypnotic, mesmerizing dance of light. Available now as a High Definition download or a standard DVD image for burning your own DVDs. (In either North American NTSC or European PAL standards). Click here for credits.

*If you have a new High Definition television and are still using an old DVD player, you have no idea what you're missing. A DVD can only hold so much information, which limits its picture quality to 720x480 pixels. Blu-ray^TM players support much higher resolutions, up to 1920x1080 pixels. The latest generation of Blu-ray^TM players are finally affordable for the mainstream consumer, so now is a great time to upgrade. Just seeing this Full HD video on Blu-ray^TM will knock your socks off and make you delighted to have upgraded.

For the longest time I've wanted to make a kaleidoscope video to add to the mix of what's out there, but I just didn't know how to do it. My math and programming skills are pretty elementary, so what might have been an easy task for many smarter or more experienced people was a very challenging one for me. Slowly but surely, I learned the necessary skills. One quantum leap in my progress occurred when through some Google searching I finally found a simple kaleidoscope example on Terence Tsang's Shine Draw instructional website. What had frustrated and confounded me for years took him an hour and a half to complete. After taking many programming classes at school, I was able to modify and expand his example code by adding several hundred lines of my own, until I had a working version suitable for video creation that I understood. That mostly involved finding dozens of classes and methods written by other people.

The beautiful fractals used in this video were based on original flame formula parameter sets created by other very talented artists and posted on the web as instructional examples. I am extremely grateful for their decision to share some of their parameters with the public and in these cases to permit commercial use by others. Many of these parameters were from Blatte's Fractal Resources. Many others were shared on the now inactive Fractal Repository website by the brilliant and prolific artist, Mr. Psiquedelico, who's wonderful work can be found all over the internet. There is an unsupported mirror of this site archived here. The hypnotic background music is written and performed by Bjorn Lynne.

If you're making your own music video and you want to synchronize the parameters with music, you may find this little tool to be helpful: http://spectrogram.org.

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