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Mindblowing EXTREME zoom into the Mandelbrot Set

submitted by arvana

1 decade 4 years 2 months 2 weeks ago

Vimeo submitter, teamfresh, says: "The final magnification is e.214. A magnification of e.12 would increase the size of a particle to the same as the earths orbit! e.21 would make a particle look the same size as the milky way and e.42 would be equal to the universe. This animation took me about two days to set up. My computer then rendered day and night non-stop for just over a month to produce the animation."

11 Comments

1stSingularity says...

Buh... Wa?

This is why math wins.

Damn good! if everyone could do this we'd see more this good, but I never have.

This is INCREDIBLE! Holy WHAT!

*quality to the MAX!

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by djsunkid.

Wow, if you watch dead center for a minute or two and then pause it the image will start to shrink.

lol Video sift has turned into jelly , its like playing guitar hero for an hour.

The little chorus line of dancing guys in bear suits was cool.

That was SOOOO extreme!

There is no pornography allowed on the Sift.

...or is it just me?

Bold Dag! Bold!>> ^siftbot:
There is no pornography allowed on the Sift.

...or is it just me?

Croccydile says...

The description is actually quite spot on. Most commercial fractal software would have died a painful death at around the 1:00 mark from lack of enough precision. Double precision can represent incredibly large/small numbers, but only have 16 significant digits. You need heavy duty math that can go way beyond this. Another issue is with incredibly deep zooms, there are more iterations needed to "see" what is down that far, and this takes even more computer time.

If the final zoom is really in the realm of 1 x 10^-214 I have no doubt even a modern computer would take a very long time to render each frame, as there would likely be billions of iterations to see that far down.

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