One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xerox Alto

Re:One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xe... by DanBC on Monday June 19, 2017 @03:32PM (#14589714)

This used to be a rite of passage for programmers of the time.

One example would be the advice given by Scientific American's A.K. Dedney's "Computer Diversions" Here's a 2010 reprint of a 1985 article: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mandelbrot-set/

And "Fractint" (a fast viewer for many fractal types) was my introduction to open source, although they called it "stone soup". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractint

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Re:One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xe... by ghaff on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @08:29AM (#14594042)

Fractint was, if not a killer app, really popular for EGA on PCs. Compute was getting fast enough at about the same time that the computations weren't too excruciating and EGA cards were the first mainstream graphics that Mandelbrot etc. sets looked decent.

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