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Re:One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xe... by astrodust on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @03:12PM (#14597551)
I remember trying to do this on a 286 and it would take the better part of a day to do an EGA quality image. A friend at the time had a 386 and it seemed blazing fast, it would take only a few hours to do a 640x480 VGA image.

Now you can do this real-time on the GPU: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4df3Rn

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