Deep Mandelbrot Zoom , final magnification 2^838 .

This is the deepest zoom I have renderd sofar. I first rendered this in 2002. But I recently remade it with nicer colour rendering. It goes very near the the left tip of the Mandebrot Set - so it does no look quite like the ordinary zoom sequences you see. One problem with really deep zooms is to get to some interesting point without hitting "the computational wall". I.e. The computation takes "forever". If done on a single computer it would take about 3.5 years on a 1 HGZ Athlon Thunderbird, and on a 2x2HGz Core2Duo about 1 year (assuming 32 bit code). If on the other hand you would do this on 25 MHz 386 sx:es you would have to have 135 of them running continously from 1990 until now. Cost for electricity (assuming 50W / machine) would be close to 1.1 million SEK or 150,000 USD with current prices. Well of course you would have plenty of time thinking about optimizations :-)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• fractal
• deep
• zoom
• mathematics
• pc
• speed
• comparision
• new-age
• meditation
• mandelbrot

[NE01337video]

What is the song name/where did you get it?

Thanks

[teamsafa]

@NE01337video

It is "Sun Silver" by SimonB, you can find it here:

jamendo dot com/en/album/22857

[bionerd23]

we need to do distributed computing on mandelbrot sets and get the deepest zoom ever! :D

hmm, a quick look at google tells me somebody else already had that idea... :)

[teamsafa]

@bionerd23

This was done distributed, but could be done better of course. Do do really deep zooms the protocol needs to be rewritten.

[aawesomeepossumm]

@oringent before you call something retarded maybe you should learn how to spell it

[misterZalli]

This looks like an animation.

[Mfunn]

This is my favouritest video !

if you got time to lose/win? go check my favourites.......... it's good stuff mannnn reaalllyyy gooodd stuuffff

[dw1664]

Mesmerizing.

[w1z13]

this is the mosty ugly i saw so far, just for having no details this doesn't show mandelbrot at his greatest.

[rvirzi]

What a unique set of path choices. The thing looks alive. Very nicely done too.

[oringent]

so retarted, its a fractal dude, you can stop zooming now

[cyyyggnus]

Hynotically Awesomatastc!

[alphamone]

Gyorgy Ligeti's "Devil's Staircase" is a great piece to listen to while watching deep zooms.