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Re: article wrt black holes and fractals out of chaotic systems...

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Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
> (cross-posted to comp.lang.javascript; I forgot to add this
> newsgroup before I posted it here!   :^(   )
>
> "Chris M. Thomasson"  wrote in message
> news:m6b84v$o6j$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>
> FWIW, here is a crude animated GPU-based tour of Julia set around
> the main cardioid of the Mandelbrot set. This is implemented in
> a pixel shader that has real time color cycling, animation and
> point-and-click zooming capabilities. I am planning to extend
> this out into a full blown online fractal explorer, complete with
> a custom function parser. I am wondering if it works for you?

I'm using SeaMonkey (similar to Firefox), it works very nicely indeed!

Color me impressed. :-)

Terje
>
> So far, I can get it to work in Chrome and Firefox. IE does not
> seem to want to render; I am probably doing something slightly
> wrong in the shader, but it does work in these other browsers.
> Perhaps IE does not like the fact that I am breaking out of a for
> loop. IIRC, the shader language does not like breaking out of a
> loop early; Humm...
>
> Anyway, here is a link to the online program:
>
> http://webpages.charter.net/appcore/fractal/webglx/ct_complex_field.html
>
> This is using an escape method I came up with that actually
> generates an entire infinite vector field, complete with field lines.
> Last time I saw an algorithm for field lines in a complex escape time
> fractal, the method was just way too complex; mine is almost too easy!
>
> FWIW, it is fairly similar to some of my simulated 2d gravitational field
> line animation's on YouTube:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOUUCk3Gdg4
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0WEsw1F0xY
>
>
> I think I found a unique method to generate a vector field that totally
> comprises everything out of the main set; so to speak.
>
> Well, does it work for you?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> BTW, I am using 32-bit floats, so the distance you can zoom to before rapid
> pixilation will be rather limited!
>
> Sorry about that for I have not emulated 64-bit floats with 32-bit base
> floats yet, but it is on the list!
>
> :^)


-- 
- <Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no>
"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"

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Re: article wrt black holes and fractals out of chaotic systems... "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2014-12-10 21:09 -0800
  Re: article wrt black holes and fractals out of chaotic systems... Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2014-12-11 18:39 +0100
  Re: article wrt black holes and fractals out of chaotic systems... Raymond Wiker <rwiker@gmail.com> - 2014-12-12 20:13 +0100
  Re: article wrt black holes and fractals out of chaotic systems... "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-12-12 20:35 +0100
    Re: article wrt black holes and fractals out of chaotic systems... "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2014-12-12 17:53 -0800
      Re: article wrt black holes and fractals out of chaotic systems... "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-12-14 14:02 +0100
        Re: article wrt black holes and fractals out of chaotic systems... "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2014-12-15 13:59 -0800
          Re: article wrt black holes and fractals out of chaotic systems... "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2014-12-17 18:07 +0100
  Re: article wrt black holes and fractals out of chaotic systems... "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2014-12-12 17:52 -0800
    Re: article wrt black holes and fractals out of chaotic systems... "James Van Buskirk" <not_valid@comcast.net> - 2014-12-13 11:52 -0700
      Re: article wrt black holes and fractals out of chaotic systems... "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2014-12-15 13:58 -0800
      Re: article wrt black holes and fractals out of chaotic systems... "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2014-12-15 14:02 -0800
        Re: article wrt black holes and fractals out of chaotic systems... "James Van Buskirk" <not_valid@comcast.net> - 2014-12-15 16:58 -0700
  Re: article wrt black holes and fractals out of chaotic systems... Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2014-12-13 04:39 +0100

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