Comments on: Weekend project: compute a 68 gigapixels fractal image

By: mlaprise

mlaprise — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:55:00 +0000

Of course … you can make a Mandelbrot set in 10 lines of codes and you can zoom almost infinitely, the only limit is the floating point precision. But that’s not the point here … i just wanted to generate a huge image to test HDView SL.

By: Jeffrey Martin

Jeffrey Martin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:17:29 +0000

This is pretty, but honestly you’re using the wrong tool for the job. I thought there was a hiccup when in fact I had zoomed in all the way.

By definition, a fractal is quite a simple mathematical equation and thus should be able to be displayed without precomputing or prerending gigabytes (!) of actual image files.

a friend of mine made a program called Xaos about 15 years ago that in many respects is much more functional than this.

I don’t mean to disparage your work. You’ve certainly done something more than what I’m capable of

cheers,
Jeffrey

By: Mohamed Mansour

Mohamed Mansour — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:28:02 +0000

Thats impressing, now if someone can do an HTML5 app of this thing.

By: Tom Keskumäki

Tom Keskumäki — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:33:00 +0000

Nice Job Martin. It’s first time i use Silverligh Right.

By: Alex in Toronto

Alex in Toronto — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:23:53 +0000

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Nice graphic!

By: malcolmputer

malcolmputer — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 06:27:52 +0000

too bad I can’t install silverlight in the linuxes

By: Paul Allendale

Paul Allendale — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 05:50:37 +0000

I came here from reddit. Must be cool but no way I’m going to install Silverlight to watch this.

By: mlaprise

mlaprise — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 04:58:35 +0000

Humm... I tried it with OpenZoom, which is a pretty close alternative in Flash but it was not as smooth.

By: Jon Neal

Jon Neal — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 04:51:16 +0000

Is there any chance you could include it somewhere else as non-Silverlight? Not everyone has it installed, after all!

Thank you

By: Robert Nickens

Robert Nickens — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 04:45:23 +0000

Wow! This is really nice. Glad to hear that you will share your work. Thank you.