Questions tagged [fractals]
Fractals are shapes that are self-similar and are usually quite detailed. Well-known fractal sets include the Mandelbrot set, Julia sets, and Phoenix sets. Tree-like fractal drawings are also common.
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CUDA Mandelbrot Kernel
I'm looking for feedback and suggestions on improving the performance and quality of my CUDA kernel for rendering the Mandelbrot set. I've implemented a "ping-pong" style coloring and ...
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Julias Set fractal timelapse
I've implemented a fractal renderer with a physics-based animation system that creates a never-ending "timelapse" effect, here is an example video.
The function uses pseudo-physics to move ...
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Tracking total iterations in CUDA fractal renderer
I'm developing a fractal renderer in CUDA and need advice on tracking the total number of iterations performed during rendering. This is important for real-time dragging and zooming performance.
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FractalRendering on GPU with CUDA
I am doing a fractal renderer using CUDA, SFML, C++, recently optimized it to eat less memory, now I am going to optimize the actual fractals, because for some reason, it is the most holding back ...
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Mandelbrot Set image generator in Rust
I'm learning Rust, and as-is tradition, I'm starting out with a Mandelbrot Set explorer as my first project (although, it just produces images so far). When run, it just creates and writes an image to ...
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Plotting the Mandelbrot set efficiently
This is my Mandelbrot set program - it includes Smooth Coloring, perodicity checks, and my approach to biomorphs.
I know of Edge Detection, but I couldn't find a simple explanation that I can ...
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Improving performance of mandelbrot set calculation
I am making a hobby OS, and I thought about adding a command for interactively rendering the Mandelbrot set. The "interactive" part is not really important, but I wanted to check if the ...
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Newton Fractal writen in C
The code has no errors, it is just slow. It takes 1.19s to start.
How can I reduce runtime without using threads or multiple processes?
I have tried compiler optimization
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Creating an image of the Mandelbrot set in Rust
I'm in the process of familiarizing myself with Rust. In order to get some practice, I decided to make a program that generates images of the Mandelbrot set.
The function I use to generate the image ...
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Python fractal tree generators
I wrote the scripts several days ago, they do exactly what I intended, but the performance is not very good, I am still stuck on for loops and don't know how to vectorize things, I wrote both scripts ...
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A Python script that creates n-flakes
I have written a simple Python script that generates n-flakes using matplotlib.
Wikipedia article on N-flake.
I wrote two functions, one function generates pentaflake, the other generates hexaflake, I ...
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Multi-threaded Mandelbrot set generator slower than single thread
I am new to parallel programming. I have been playing around with multi-threading and for some reason, multi-threading the Mandelbrot set is slower than running a single thread. I have been trying to ...
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C# PRNG class based on xoshiro256**
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I'm creating a (probably bad) map-generation utility in C# to generate fractal terrain and similar. Nothing I do probably needs special treatment, but I thought it best to start with a good ...
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Recursion to generate fractal
I used recursion to generate fractal and got the desired result but I think my code can be better
I started using MATLAB a few days ago and since than trying and learning new things.
Now this code ...
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Interactive Mandelbrot set pictures
The purpose of this project is to generate an interactive Mandelbrot set. The user can specify the degree of magnification from the command-line and click on the produced picture to magnify the ...
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