- Sep 7, 2001
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Hi,
I've been interested in fractals for a while now. I've done a little light reading, wrote a C program a few years ago to draw mandelbrots, and played with the DOS Fractint.
I understands the basics of them, and how arbitrary precision math routines let you do deep zooming, where the data values become EXTREMELY small, much smaller than a 64 bit or 80 bit value that is native to a CPU can hold ...
My question is what is the deepest fractal that has ever been drawn/calculated? I read that Fractint (a DOS fractal program still in development, currently at version 20) can basically zoom into a fractal so far that "you can look at an area of a fractal the size of your screen, on a fractal that is the size of the orbit of Jupiter around the Sun."
Has more advanced software been written? Have crazy deep fractals ever been caluculated on super-computers? Is there a good 32 bit fractal generation program for Windows that has the same deep zooming abilities as Fractint (which due to it's 16bit nature is a pain to use in the background on Windows 2000)
Thanks in advance.
I've been interested in fractals for a while now. I've done a little light reading, wrote a C program a few years ago to draw mandelbrots, and played with the DOS Fractint.
I understands the basics of them, and how arbitrary precision math routines let you do deep zooming, where the data values become EXTREMELY small, much smaller than a 64 bit or 80 bit value that is native to a CPU can hold ...
My question is what is the deepest fractal that has ever been drawn/calculated? I read that Fractint (a DOS fractal program still in development, currently at version 20) can basically zoom into a fractal so far that "you can look at an area of a fractal the size of your screen, on a fractal that is the size of the orbit of Jupiter around the Sun."
Has more advanced software been written? Have crazy deep fractals ever been caluculated on super-computers? Is there a good 32 bit fractal generation program for Windows that has the same deep zooming abilities as Fractint (which due to it's 16bit nature is a pain to use in the background on Windows 2000)
Thanks in advance.