DEEP inside a Mandelbrot set

[Jarvitä]

http://www.vimeo.com/groups/4012/videos/1908224

The final magnification is e.214. Want some perspective? a magnification of e.12 would increase the size of a particle to the same as the earths orbit! e.21 would make a particle look the same size as the milky way and e.42 would be equal to the universe. This zoom smashes all of them all away. If you were "actually" traveling into the fractal your speed would be faster than the speed of light.

Watch in HD, fullscreen.

"My god, it's full of stars" never felt more appropriate. :huh:

 

[Max Pain]

crazy

 

[Tex]

Wow, that's sick!!

 

[Sunhillow]

I sometimes travel into Mandelbrot sets using XaoS, but it won't go in this deep!
Back before the 90s I used to let my 8086 computer calculate day and night for the whole view. Did not even think of zooming a bit into it :rofl:

 

[streb2001]

I sometimes travel into Mandelbrot sets using XaoS, but it won't go in this deep!
Back before the 90s I used to let my 8086 computer calculate day and night for the whole view. Did not even think of zooming a bit into it :rofl:

Jeez that's fast!! Must be some very clever coding in there.

I wrote a mandelbrot plotter in Sinclair BASIC on the Sinclair QL in, wait for it, 1990. Took 48 hrs to finish a plot. If I was lucky the microdrive saved it without crapping out. Happy days.

 

[Andy44]

Ah, another Sinclair user! Timex-Sinclair 1000, 1982 vintage. Still works last time I plugged it in.

 

[Jarvitä]

Heh, Paint.net can render a mandelbrot set at 20000*20000 pixels resolution in around four minutes on my home PC.

 

[teamfresh]

Jeez that's fast!! Must be some very clever coding in there.

I wrote a mandelbrot plotter in Sinclair BASIC on the Sinclair QL in, wait for it, 1990. Took 48 hrs to finish a plot. If I was lucky the microdrive saved it without crapping out. Happy days.

I used a method called "tweening" to be able to render a zoom that deep antialiasedx4 in HD in a realistic amount of time! It still took over a month!

 

[the.punk]

Has anyone a suggestion for a mandelbrot calculatotion program?

 

[teamfresh]

Has anyone a suggestion for a mandelbrot calculatotion program?

The best fractal softwares i think are

chaospro (freeware)
apophysis (freeware)
ultrafractal(shareware)
fractalextreme(shareware)

but there are many many different fractal softwares out there and it depends on what you want to do with the fractal as to what is the best software for the job.

teamfresh

---------- Post added at 09:12 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:06 PM ----------

One more thing people - that is that there is a version of this animation that i made that is four minutes long rather than ten and it has colour cycling! You can check it out by clicking here http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1663241/a_very_cool_deep_fractal_zoom_to_e214/

 

[Sunhillow]

Has anyone a suggestion for a mandelbrot calculatotion program?

Xaos is easy to use. Back when there were only DOS programs available Fractint was the Mother of all Fractal Generators (TM).

Teamfresh, your suggestions look interesting. Will have a look

 

[Quick_Nick]

Good to see you on the forums, teamfresh!
I love fractals and the Mandelbrot set in particular. I've made a simple Java program for the Mandelbrot. It's slow, it still needs a better way to zoom to a particular point, and it doesn't have smooth coloring, but it keeps me entertained.
By the way, I'm not sure if you're aware, but I believe one or two calculations may be incorrect for the orbit/galaxy magnification thing. The universe one seems correct though. If I'm correct, if e12 was the size of the Earth's orbit, the particle would be a foot wide! e26 would work if the particle was a proton. And e36 for the Milky Way. Please correct me if I'm mistaken!

Earth orbit: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADBF_enUS309US309&q=1AU+%2f+1e26+to+femtometers
Galaxy: http://www.google.com/search?source...309&q=100000+lightyears+/+1e36+to+femtometers
Universe: http://www.google.com/search?source...9&q=24000000000+parsecs+/+1e42+to+femtometers

And it's even simpler math to find that e214 is like magnifying a proton to the size of e172 universes! So amazing...

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 universes!!!

 

[the.punk]

Thanks for your suggestions all.

 

[cr1]

Great. My eyes now hurt =D

 

[Kinga]

ahh Fractint! i loved that program!

 

[bloodtoes]

"Why is it the deeper you go, the bigger it gets?"

 

[Zeehond]

This is interesting: http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbulb.html

3D Mandelbrot like experiments.

 

[Quick_Nick]

This is interesting: http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbulb.html

3D Mandelbrot like experiments.

Interesting? Quite an understatement!!

 

[Brycesv1]

i feel sorry for that guys computer