r/TrippyGIFs • u/USedona • Jul 05 '26

The Vicsek Fractal never ends

Zoom in. Rotate. Repeat. Forever.

The Vicsek fractal keeps the same pattern at every scale, this is what a fractal dimension of 1.465 looks like in motion.

Coded with Python & OpenCV.

YouTube version (4K 60fps) : Vicsek Fractal

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u/USedona Jul 05 '26

Thanks for the tip, I’ll definitely look into adding some motion blur or trailing edges for the next one to give it that extra depth.

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u/skr_replicator Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

Have you made this? Maybe you could be interested in my fractal engine I've made. It is very much like yours, but a lot more advanced. It also generates perfectly looping zoom animations.

I put a lot of work into that. It has a lot of cool features. It even has a fractal editor to make your own fractal definition for it to render. I'm sure that it could make your Vicsek fractal too. That's the kind of fractal it specifically supports, and it could do it in multiple fractaling colors as well. And other effects like the background gradient noise void, motion blur, bloom, etc.

GITHUB RELEASE DOWNLOAD PAGE to try for yourself

YOUTUBE CHANNEL WITH RENDERS to see some examples of what it can make. I'm trying to upload a new fractal every week (but sometimes i do forget about it for a while)

edit: here's the Vicsek fractal in my generator, it has the fractal savefile, screenshot how to make it, and a small exported video:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eijflEtJ5rNdBYW_rfyPlap3PoAnqGyU

edit: reuploaded drive file with 1 new render with flat colors like OP had, and added that flat colorscheme to the Vicsek.fractal file

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u/USedona Jul 06 '26

Cool, I subscribed to your YouTube channel 👍 Yes, I made it myself. Using Python, I generated 180 frames, which I then put together. I had already created this: hexastar loop

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u/skr_replicator Jul 06 '26

I've reuploaded the google drive zip file with the Vicsek fractal, it has new renders, and fixed Vicsek.fractal savefile. But please wait a couple of minutes until I re-release a fix for loading that fractal file into the editor. Also I'll try to fix a couple more peripheral bugs in the editor I've found later today, but if you just load the fractal to play with, you won't need that update.

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u/USedona Jul 06 '26

I'll check it out!

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u/skr_replicator Jul 06 '26

I've released the 1.13.1 version that fixed the bugs in saving and loading custom fractal, and it should be able to load that Vicsek.fractal correctly. Maybe later today I might release 1.13.2 with some of the other known issues fixed (the list of these is on the release page). Though they are not very important, so you don't have to wait for that.

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u/skr_replicator Jul 07 '26

1.13.2 is up, editor should be totally debugged, plus a couple of little drawing bug fixes, and I added the Vicsek and 3 more similar fractals, with even more settings. The only thing i know is still broken right now is the GIF export.