Unicode issues maybe?

One of my first working graphical programs was a mandelbrot set renderer. R.I.P.

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">Zoom to e228. I found this utterly amazing. A deep, deep zoom on the mandelbrot fractal all the way to e228. When you hit the original pattern you realise that infinity is fucking huge...

I've never done acid. But I think if I did, and I looked at that, I would achieve enlightenment. Math is poetry.

Yann L, I think the demo 'stargazer' has a real time fractal - i think the one that look like a borg cube in 3D (or Razor 1911 logo if remade in 2D). i can't remember much, or the technique behind it - maybe they made a short-cut or pre-compute to make it real time.

yeah, fractal is one of the earliest graphical thing that i do, too. this is due to a circle, square, and filler is after a while is boring. besides, future crew 'panic' has factral zoomer and 3d fractal mountain.

fractal is a good way to get nice gfx through mathematical means.

RIP.

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I always found fractals to be absolutely fascinating. They show the inherent beauty in mathematics in a really unique way. Lots of modern procedural rendering techniques would not have been possible without Mandelbrots' work.

Agreed. Understanding fractals is always in my new year's resolution list.

Farewell.

RIP [sad]

Our last DS game had gaMandelbrot in the code (Although since it was never used, the linker stripped it). I was surprised it actually worked with the DS's 19.12 fixed point maths...

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Our last DS game had gaMandelbrot in the code (Although since it was never used, the linker stripped it).

lol?

What's crazy is that I was watching his TED2010 talk not that long ago, which I reckon was his last talk anywhere. I hope I can remain that technical when and if I reach that age.

Almost every programmer does a Mandelbrot set renderer every now and then. It's almost a "hello world" for a graphics layer [smile].






Thanks Benoît.

R.I.P.

Inspired by this thread, I wrote a blog entry on the subject on my webpage. It includes a couple of the videos posted in this thread and a few others that I found to be fascinating on the web. I'm not really a technically minded person, so feel free to rip away at any stuff I might've got wrong :).