where can i view a mandelbrot zoom into infinity?

Question

some time ago i had a desire to find the above, but all i could find were pathetic dvds with clips that jumped from one thing to another.
what i actually want is one long section just of zooming deeper and deeper into the infinate detail of the mandelbrot set, of at least 20 minutes but ideally much longer.
either dvd for sale or internet clip would be fine.

Answer 1

Fractal Extreme is the fastest and deepest zoomer i know. And i've tried a lot!
http://www.cygnus-software.com
I've got the commercial version, it's great.

Also, fractint is popular fractal-software:
http://www.fractint.org/

Let's not forget Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractals
Lot's of info.

BTW: even all the (super)computers combined can't create (realtime or not) mandelbrot movies which will zoom continiously for 20 minutes! The more you zoom, the more calculations are needed per pixel. This goes quadratic or exponential, i think.
Mandelbrot movies which will zoom forever (thus by definition are created in realtime) will NEVER exist, not even with our universe's total calculation power together.

Answer 2

The problem is that machines have finite wordlengths. Even using quad precision floating point point doesn't get you all that 'deeply' into Mandelbröt. There are some languages (such as FORTH) that will let you write your own, arbitrary precision, math routines. But they tend to run fairly slow and, since each point has to be iterated at least several hundred times (many more if you're in a slower rate of convergence area ☺) it ends up feeling like an infinite time to get each image.

I have heard stories (nd I'm fairly sure that they're all 'Ivory Tower Myths') of people building arrays of hundreds (or thousands) of smaller processors and computing Mandelbröt on a massivly parallel scale.


Doug

Answer 3

My favourite fractal program is Xaos, and I've even written a program myself to display the basic Mandlebrot set (as a Ruby script to a paint program, so extremely slow).

Even at a relatively small level of zoom, the number of iterations used can have quite an impact on the level of detail you get out. To get 20 minute's worth, either you'd have to set it to zoom reeeeally slowly, or throw a LOT of computing power at it.

Answer 4

I wish I could help but I would need to know what you are talking about.

Answer 5

http://www.programurl.com/software/mandelbrot.htm

But by definition - you'll never get to infinity...

Answer 6

look for the stonesoup group, they have your answer