Re:One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xe...
by dekhn on Monday June 19, 2017 @05:35PM
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yeah, once z = z2 + c was explained, most of Mandelbrot was easy for me too.
I tried it in BASIC on an Apple IIe. it was the first time I was confronted with the question of whether it was safe to run the computer over night, or if it would overheat.
The next morning, the computer was fine, but it still hadn't reached an interesting part of the set.
So once I got a PC I ended up using Fractint. In those days, Intels had slow floating point, so they ported the algorithm to use integer. That was much more effective than jjust speeding up the machine clock (my first learning about performance).
Palette cycling was "cool" but by the time I got to college, while I thought I'd spend all my time generating fractals, I found the real world more interesting...
I tried it in BASIC on an Apple IIe. it was the first time I was confronted with the question of whether it was safe to run the computer over night, or if it would overheat.
The next morning, the computer was fine, but it still hadn't reached an interesting part of the set.
So once I got a PC I ended up using Fractint. In those days, Intels had slow floating point, so they ported the algorithm to use integer. That was much more effective than jjust speeding up the machine clock (my first learning about performance).
Palette cycling was "cool" but by the time I got to college, while I thought I'd spend all my time generating fractals, I found the real world more interesting...