LIVENODING / Creating Fractal 3D Flower Using JWildfire & Geometry Nodes

#Fractal #geometrynodes #pointcloud
In this episode, I am sharing a quick process and breakdown on how to create and render a 3D Fractal Flower.
The procedures are as below:
1. You can try coding your own Fractal design, but for simplicity you can use some kind of Fractal app that can output Point Cloud data into Blender. I am using Fractal app called JWildfire free version for PC or Mac version ($$), but you can also use Mandelbulb3D app on PC.
2. Export JWildfire Fractal "flames" as slices of point cloud data, increase the cell resolution as needed before you process the PLY export. I recommend you to pick a type of fractal that is more or less 3D.
NOTE: We are quite lucky because Blender 3.1and 3.2 recent updates allow ultra fast Point Cloud rendering and there is also Blender developer working on PLY import that supports custom attributes.
3. So the next step in Blender is simply to import the point cloud data and process the point cloud so we can render it as mesh with colors, I do this using Geometry Nodes.
Enjoy!
* JWildfire Fractal app:
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* Custom PLY import for Blender:
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* Example JWildfire Fractal FLAMES PLY output:
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[@criddyla696]

That is incredible, I have watched this a couple of times but I am failing early on as the jwildfire 3d mesh export feature is quite unintuative and I am getting frustrated with it, I am pretty good with Jwildfire and have used it and Mandlebulb3d which may also be useful for this method although your knowledge is vastly superior to mine in this area for sure. Do you know of any easy step by step ways of understanding the mesh generator part of Jwildfire as this would be great, thank you. The basic problem is in your example the front view has depth, in mine its just a line 2d.

[@fiveoh3814]

So cool. Thanks for the video!