Dive impossibly deep into the Mandelbrot set — smooth infinite zoom, music-reactive color, shareable dives, video export. Free in your browser.
  • Zannsolo@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 days ago

    I got into these like 15 years ago and did a pretty deep zoom on my computer I think it rendered for a few days.

    I zoomed to e^144

      • Zannsolo@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 days ago

        Tbf my setup was already a few years old when I did this, and the quality of this site is a lot lower than a lot of the deep zoom YouTube videos including mine. After I saw this I saw videos in the e^thousands range from years ago.

  • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    Don’t these things take like ages to compute? how is it doing this so quickly in a web browser? This is insanely cool

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
      3·
      3 days ago

      Modern browsers can compute fractals quickly using the GPU because a WebGL fragment shader can operate on every pixel simultaneously. For each pixel, the shader maps the screen coordinates to the complex plane and iterates the equation until the value escapes. And all the pixel calculations are then done in parallel.