Zoom me in

[euclid]

I think it was Poincaré who said that space is infinite not only in the "large" but also in the "small". During some research on the mathematics of zoom I came across this video and though it has little connection to the "zoom of space-time" I found it beautiful to watch (and listen).

I hope you'll enjoy.

Cheers Euclid

[pjknibbs]

Cool! Bit puzzled why he says it took more than 10Gb of RAM to render at the limit, though--the nature of the Mandelbrot set means it takes more processing power as you zoom in, not more memory.

[red assassin]

Cool! Bit puzzled why he says it took more than 10Gb of RAM to render at the limit, though--the nature of the Mandelbrot set means it takes more processing power as you zoom in, not more memory.

Well, it's using an arbitrary precision floating point maths library - both memory and CPU requirements will grow as you zoom in because the necessary precision grows.


This is a particularly pretty render - very nice.

[pjknibbs]

Well, it's using an arbitrary precision floating point maths library - both memory and CPU requirements will grow as you zoom in because the necessary precision grows.

Maybe, but I find it hard to believe that two coordinates, their square, and the current value from the previous iteration--e.g. just four numbers!--take up 10Gb of storage!

[red assassin]

I assume there's some CPU/memory tradeoffs going on here and it's not just applying the naive iteration to every point in every frame of the movie from scratch!