The YouTube title of this video is "A Mandelbrot the size of the known universe". I think that this might qualify for understatement of the year. I expect that the original mandelbrot, in comparison to the size of an average screen, surpasses the size of the visible universe within about 30 seconds. The magnitude of this zoom is absolutely jaw-dropping.

Needs a much higher resolution and better quality than shockwave and youtube can ever provide. Too bad, would like to see more. As it is, just looks like pretty colours on a spirograph. Still, upvote for the mind-boggling-ness of it all.

i wake up in a bed in an all-white room. there's a tall black box at the foot of the bed...

- checks plastiquemonkey's IV drip, checks pupil dilation, administers injection of Acetyl-alpha-methylfentanyl, leaves room taking black lunch box with him -

I am now under your control djsunkid, and ready to do your bidding...

/blank stare

That's very exciting. I love how the sets keep re-appearing in binary couplets. Wonder if that has to do with repeating primes??

What's with the ending?

shmay: quick, go vote on all my vids! muahahahahaha!

are those Julia sets at 1:39? I dont think they are binary couplets

Hm.. according to the author, the original mandelbrot is the size of the universe when we reach the first mini-brot, about 37 seconds in.

The final frame is at a magnification of E89. That is a ratio far greater than the smallest elementary particle to the size of the known universe. The animation took an entire year to render on three dedicated machines running Fractint. The last frame alone took 18 hours to render. I downloaded a slightly different version of this at 640x480, and wow, it really really boggles the mind.

His webpage is here: http://www.fractal-animation.net/ufvp.html

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Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Thursday 7th December 2006 (promotion called by gold star member farhad2000)

OMG This record has been SMASHED! There is a new fractal program out there called Fractal eXtreme, and people are making unBELIEVABLY deep zooms! Check out: http://www.videosift.com/video/Mindblowing-EXTREME-zoom-into-the-Mandelbrot-Set

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