Re:Show HN: FractalViewer: A JavaScript fractal explorer
by laser on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @06:18AM
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This is awesome :) The one feature request I have that would make navigating a lot less frustrating is for the zoom to go to where the cursor is located, instead of the center of the screen.
Re:Show HN: FractalViewer: A JavaScript fractal explorer
by valera_rozuvan on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @10:53AM
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Right now FractalViewer is using a modified version of the Successive Refinement algorithm invented by Robert P. Munafo. See a description of the original algorithm http://mrob.com/pub/muency/successiverefinement.html .
Version 2 of FractalViewer will use Web Workers (multipple threads) to render the image, so it will resemble "the maps one" (rendering multiple smaller squares at once). See progress on this at https://github.com/valera-rozuvan/FractalViewer/issues/3 .
By the way - maybe I got your question wrong. What do you mean by "a render technique like the maps one"? Can you point me to a resource where it is described?
Re:Show HN: FractalViewer: A JavaScript fractal explorer
by laser on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @06:24AM
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Is there a way to increase the max depth by just rendering the zoomed area, or is it unviable as the mathematics require calculating the entire object?
Re:Show HN: FractalViewer: A JavaScript fractal explorer
by elsurudo on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @08:26AM
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Last time I implemented something like this was in uni about 10 years ago now, but I recall that not being the case – you should be able to render just the visible area, as (at least in the case of Mandelbrot) the data is independent.
Re:Show HN: FractalViewer: A JavaScript fractal explorer
by laser on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @02:34PM
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No, I mean that at a certain level of zoom the fractal appears to stop being generated, and I end up just zooming into pixel blocks. For example, if you try to recreate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jGaio87u3A you can only for for a bit before the fractal appears to stop generating.
Re:Show HN: FractalViewer: A JavaScript fractal explorer
by valera_rozuvan on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @04:47PM
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It's because currently FractalViewer is not designed to work around floating point precision limits in JavaScript. So, after zooming a bit, you hit the "pixelated wall". I plan to address this issue in future release of FractalViewer. See https://github.com/valera-rozuvan/FractalViewer/issues/10 .
Version 2 of FractalViewer will use Web Workers (multipple threads) to render the image, so it will resemble "the maps one" (rendering multiple smaller squares at once). See progress on this at https://github.com/valera-rozuvan/FractalViewer/issues/3 .
By the way - maybe I got your question wrong. What do you mean by "a render technique like the maps one"? Can you point me to a resource where it is described?
More information on JS floating point numbers, their limitations, and ways to work around those limits - can be found in this informative article http://blog.chewxy.com/2014/02/24/what-every-javascript-deve... .