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ent1ty
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Julia Fractal Explorer

Post by ent1ty »

Hi,
first, take a look at the screens 8)

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So, it's a fractal explorer running on GPU. I got amazed by the whole idea of fractals and wanted to try it myself. Took me only a couple of hours :P (but uploading took me a day, this internet is ...aaah, a waste of words)

Features:
  • Set Cx and Cy (seed)
    Set number of iterations
    Move around freely with FPS camera
    Take a screenshot(saves in png format)
    Application runs in fullscreen, using resolution and depth of your desktop
Requires OpenGL shader model 3.0 (but it could also run on 2.0, did not have time to try this).
Released under WTFPL

Comes with a binary and source
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Last edited by ent1ty on Mon Feb 28, 2011 7:28 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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stefbuet
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Post by stefbuet »

I love those kind of explorers.
I've done that 2 years ago but it don't really use the GPU (Flash app using C code with Alchemy compiler)...
fract explorer
You can do some julia & mandelbroot fract :P
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Midnight
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Post by Midnight »

interesting, very interesting indeed. 8)

It doesn't work with 2.0 btw (at least I think that's what I'm using)

But perhaps if I recompiled it would, maybe I'll try that.
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slavik262
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Post by slavik262 »

As you get closer and closer to the fractal surface, could you slow down the camera movement speed? It's hard to slowly zoom in to admire increased complexity.
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kazymjir
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Post by kazymjir »

Tested on acid.
Awesome!
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ent1ty
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Post by ent1ty »

Midnight wrote: It doesn't work with 2.0 btw (at least I think that's what I'm using)
But perhaps if I recompiled it would, maybe I'll try that.
Yes, you'll have to recompile :wink:
slavik262 wrote:As you get closer and closer to the fractal surface, could you slow down the camera movement speed? It's hard to slowly zoom in to admire increased complexity.
Ok, i'll try to play with that, see what i can do.


Thanks for all the nice comments! :)
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RaverGames
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Post by RaverGames »

looks good thats for Source :)
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Revan1985
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Post by Revan1985 »

fine, fine...
can i say you that the program run fine on a 5870 :D
100 iteration as value are on 300+ fps 8) (the full power of ati :P )
resolution is 1920 x 1080 :wink:

good work, and thanks also for code... :roll:
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Post by sio2 »

Reminds me of my Mandrelbrot demo from three years ago:
http://sio2.g0dsoft.com

I was limited by Shader Model 3 as to how far I could zoom in. When I get chance I'll look at a SM5 version (via the Irrlicht DX11 driver).
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