mandelbrot fractal

[folkert]

Hi Vincent,

> hi Folkert - you probably want to consider building a small piece of gpgpu
...
> No CPU library can rival that.

Thanks for the elaborate reply.

My goal is not neccessarily to build the fastest most accurate
mandelbrot calculator. I was merely looking around for alternatives to
a "big number" library that I use on an embedded platform. The one I
use currently uses 1 byte per digit which is rather resource heavy for
an mcu with only 2KB of ram. Now GMP is probably also a bit too heavy
but I got carried away :-)

> BTW very interested in the program you got now to see how with more bits
> precision mandelbrot looks like - where is it for download?

I somewhat documented what I did: http://www.vanheusden.com/misc/gmp/
You'll notice that there is hardly any difference beyond 64 bit.


Folkert van Heusden