"The combination of epic renderings, awesome music, and a cool scientific themes make this an experience rather than just a cool fractal video."
-CYBERTREE (YouTube)
A Fractal journey to the birth of the Eukaryotic Cell; the building block of almost all life we see today. www.julius-horsthuis.com music: "Prayer For A God" by Darren Tate The Rhyacian is a geologic period that lasted between 2300 and 2050 million years ago. In this period, the first Eukaryotic cells emerged. Until this period, the earth had been inhabited only by the much simpler Prokaryotes, which make up Bacteria and Archaea. The birth of the Eukaryote with its distinctive nucleus has been extremely important for evolution to get going. All fungi are Eukaryotes. All plants and animals are Eukaryotes. We are made out of mysterious Eukaryotes that continue to exist after that magical moment in the Rhyacian, over two billion years ago.
Background
One of my own favorite pieces. A celebration of evolution - a subject I'm extremely intrigued by. I'm not usually into this kind of trance music, but for some reason I really like this music and think it works great to create this feeling of a drug-induced trip - not very psychedelic but more hardcore.
The last shot, the slow-moving rotation around the structure at the end has a special meaning to me.
What you see is a fractalized 3D scan of a woman, lying on her stomach. It's hard to make out, but once you see it, it will become obvious. The woman I scanned has been my wife for many years, but now we have become separated. This is my fractalized memory of her.
