Re:Optimization Example: Mandelbrot Set (part 1)
by crazygringo on Monday February 19, 2024 @12:39PM
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Wow, thank you! I had no idea at all this was such an active area.
When I was a teen I wrote my own renderer that could zoom and pan in real time using DirectX on my 486, back when Fractint was the most popular tool.
So I'm utterly fascinated to see that this is something people still care about! There was a brief period in the 90's when you'd see images of the Mandelbrot set on T-shirts you could buy at the mall, as part of a broader psychedelic trend, but then it had pretty much disappeared it seemed like.
When I was a teen I wrote my own renderer that could zoom and pan in real time using DirectX on my 486, back when Fractint was the most popular tool.
So I'm utterly fascinated to see that this is something people still care about! There was a brief period in the 90's when you'd see images of the Mandelbrot set on T-shirts you could buy at the mall, as part of a broader psychedelic trend, but then it had pretty much disappeared it seemed like.