If you like this kind of zoom into the Mandelbrot set, check out this[1] zoom to 2^1116 from a few years ago (which is also available in 4k). The final ~2/5 of the zoom is probably the trippiest part of the Mandelbrot set I've ever seen, with a repeating "evil eye (nazar)"/"eye of sauron" motif[2] of incredible complexity.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbwaFQ2r2c4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbwaFQ2r2c4</a><p>[2] <a href="http://imgur.com/a/cwVHZ" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/a/cwVHZ</a>
Like many others here I am sure, I was quite obsessed with fractals way back, fractint was awesome, and I did spend quite some time writing an integer math fractal generator in assembly on my AtariST back then (I remember enjoying just how many registers I could use on M68k compared to my friends that were working with x86 and how it made things so much simpler, I really enjoyed M68k assembly)<p>When I first found XaoS in later years it was amazing, thinking that you could actually zoom in real time (!) and it's nice to see that some programs are still around allowing you to do fractals.<p>It would be interesting to know which would be the fastest way to calculate them nowadays, if on the CPU or on the GPU (I think in both cases one would have to roll their own high precision math for deep zooms)<p>(edit) found a post on the Fractal Extreme blog discussing GPU math, it is from 2012 though, I wonder if the intervening 4 years have changed the author's opinion on this.<p><a href="https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/fractal-and-crypto-performance/" rel="nofollow">https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/fractal-and-cry...</a>
Fractals in the browser, in WebGL, in real time.[1] Pan and zoom around. Much fun.<p>[1] <a href="http://hirnsohle.de/test/fractalLab/" rel="nofollow">http://hirnsohle.de/test/fractalLab/</a>
Ever since I've discovered 3D fractals, 2D ones simply don't cut it for me anymore.<p>Unfortunately they are much harder to calculate.<p><a href="http://blog.hvidtfeldts.net/index.php/category/mandelbulb/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.hvidtfeldts.net/index.php/category/mandelbulb/</a>
It's funny, I always found fractal zooms to be deeply unsatisfying. Although I know it won't happen, I keep waiting for some kind of resolution or goal. In a philosophical way, I think I have a bit of the same feeling towards life itself.. :-)
What's with the all the software and even file formats not supporting 4K? I mean yes it's a very uncommon resolution, but why have the number of possible resolutions fixed at all?
If you plan to watch most of your movies in 4K, you probably should wait about 10 years before buying a new TV... the movie industry doesn't adapt very quickly and cable compresses everything so much that you can't even get true 1080 even if they say that they have HD