Thanks to the Mandelbulber developer community and Stephen Sink for his tutorial on keyframing 3D fractals. Buddhi and the team have developed an awesome application. In this video animated backgrounds were made with Gimp MathMap Composer. The fractal render took 12 hours on one computer. I then imported 4,000 PNGs with alpha backgrounds into Gimp. I hit a memory wall and had to split the render into 5 chunks. I used a random number generator to select 3 fractals from about 98 possible fractals to make a hybrid fractal in Mandelbulber. At the moment there are a possible 152,000 fractal combinations of 3 from 98 so I used the unix 'rand' utility to choose them. Amazingly this experiment worked for me so maybe it's an option for those of us who are a bit overwhelmed by the 3D fractal universe.

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That was very cool! You have a lot of interesting shapes going on there and morph us through them. I'm very glad my Keyframing in Mandelbulber tutorial was helpful to you. You seem to have got the basics down, and are rocking it out! Well done!

Purists   

Sometimes you just gotta throw any old what together and see if it explodes! Randomly generated by robots or humans, who cares, I am all for experiments! 

Re Obelix: Oh, I'm honoured, thank you! 
Fragmentarium can do great stuff 

And I used to paint, acrylics (horrible stuff, paint and paintings alike! ), and draw and also was pottering a bit with ceramics. All very messy, computers are so much cleaner  

The great thing about fractals is that they can look really nice AND there's more to them (or at least there Can be more to them if you're willing to read and learn and read more and then realize that you would have Loved to have had a much much better education in maths and programming ) than just sliding sliders and hitting buttons, for me that is the real reason I am totally hooked on them. Rehab is futile

the software is the means of expressing the ideas

Well said!