Mandelbrot zoom, pc speed comparision.

The evoloution of the PC the last 20++ years have been astounding.

This sequence to a denser part of the mandelbrot set has a final magnification that would be right on the limit for my first mandelzoom program written in turbo-pascal.

Its hard to get this look good, the mpeg4 coder didnt like this sequece, it looked much better in mpeg2 at same bitrate, rendered at 640x480.

Approximate Rendering times would be:

1985: 8086cpu + soft floats: 134 Years
1986: 8086+8087 + asm code for fp: 7.5 Years
1990: 25 MHz 386sx+387: 0.6 Years
1994: 100 MHz 486DX4: 400 Hours
2001: 1.0 GHz Athlon T-bird: 4 Hours
2007: 2x2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo: 1 Hour

(The year above is not when the cpu was introduced, but rather when it was available in machines you could afford)

Then of course in the 1990:s you would not try to render this in 640x480.

Music: "Saw-Belly Bacon"
Written & Performed by:
Derek R. Audette - (C) MMIV
(Socan)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• computer
• pc
• fractal
• mandelbrot
• zoom
• benchmark

[ortega24024]

We did it on an Amiga A500 (1Mb mem, about 8MHz 16 bit processor) in 1993.

I've uploaded video of it which is only very flickery because of the way we filmed it (decent recording in the post).

[Muvlonion]

yet again, moore's law proves to be right!

[KesavaAVP]

1985: 8086cpu + soft floats: 134 Years

2009: 8×3 GHz 8-core: 10 minutes

what a difference!

[kinnisonPaladin]

as you know there are ready made applications that create suck fractal vids. It is very likely that they will be more efficient than a simple 10-lines program in a C++ or other language that you write on your free time, if for example those programms are configured to use multiple cores of modern processors and even the graphics cards' gpus for extra help in the calculations. So you could look into those. Ive heard of a "Xaos" for example, but there are quite a few out there. Have fun!

[Unlord84]

Ok, language is this written in???

You see, I've been doing similar programs, but it takes muuuuch longer to render it (+- 2 days/ min). I'm looking for ideas to make it faster. So help is welcome.

[Jonhny2]

that was nice!