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Deepest Mandelbrot Set Zoom Animation ever - a New Record! 10^275 (2.1E275 or 2^915)

Orson Wang

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A deep zoom animation of the Mandelbrot set reaching a magnification of 10^275, rendered over six months on a 12-core CPU.

Music is "Research Lab" by Dark Flow ( youtu.be/FxzSV8ouJ3I ) Details: The final magnification is 2.1x10^275 (or 2^915). I believe that this is the deepest zoom animation of the Mandelbrot set produced to date (January 2010). Each frame was individually rendered at 640x480 resolution and strung together at 30 frames per second. No frame interpolation was used. All images were lovingly rendered by 12 CPU cores running 24/7 for 6 months. Self-similarity (mini-brots) can be seen at , , and at the end .

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Retricon Hacker News • Recommends

On “High-Resolution Mandelbrot in Obfuscated Python (2011)”

Probably, I wonder what code they use for this: link because deeper zoom requires much higher precision math which takes a lot more computation. PS: Not as far but much better video: link to this video
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laseron Hacker News • Mentions

On “Show HN: FractalViewer: A JavaScript fractal explorer”

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 link to this video you can only for for a bit before the fractal appears to stop generating.
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Retricon Hacker News • Mentions

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

It crazy how far computers have improved so this is the kind of thing you can do as a hobby project. link to this video
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morphleon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Mandelbrot deep zoom theory and practice (2021)”

In 1986 we wrote a parallel Mandelbrot program in assembly instructions in the 2K or 4K on-chip SRAM of 17 x T414 Transputer chips linked together with 4 x 10 Mbps links each into a cheap supercomputer 1. It drew the 512 x 342 pictures on a Mac 128K as terminal at around 10 seconds per picture. I later wrote the quadruple-precision floating-point calculations in microcode 2 to speed it up by a factor of 10 and combined 52 x T414 with 20 x T800 Transputers with floating point hardware into a larger supercomputer costing around $50K. With this cheap 72 core supercomputer it still would have taken years to produce the deep zoom of the Mandelbrot set 4 that took them 6 months with 12 CPU c…
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