Deep Mandelbrot Zoom , final magnification 2^838 .

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Published 2009-11-25

This is the deepest zoom I have renderd sofar. I first rendered this in 2002. But I recently remade it with nicer colour rendering. It goes very near the the left tip of the Mandebrot Set - so it does no look quite like the ordinary zoom sequences you see. One problem with really deep zooms is to get to some interesting point without hitting "the computational wall". I.e. The computation takes "forever". If done on a single computer it would take about 3.5 years on a 1 HGZ Athlon Thunderbird, and on a 2x2HGz Core2Duo about 1 year (assuming 32 bit code). If on the other hand you would do this on 25 MHz 386 sx:es you would have to have 135 of them running continously from 1990 until now. Cost for electricity (assuming 50W / machine) would be close to 1.1 million SEK or 150,000 USD with current prices. Well of course you would have plenty of time thinking about optimizations :-)

All Comments (21)

@gijane02 2 years ago

3:40 perfect sound
@joshrokman 7 years ago

The visuals and music fit together very well - great work.
@BRUMARTUBE 14 years ago

I love zoom on the M set. and I love even more the zooms on the little M sets, and even more on the *very* little M sets, and you manage this incredibly well with nice appropriate music. Very cool!
@rvirzi 13 years ago

What a unique set of path choices. The thing looks alive. Very nicely done too.
@gijane02 2 years ago

This sound is relaxing
@alphamone 13 years ago

Gyorgy Ligeti's "Devil's Staircase" is a great piece to listen to while watching deep zooms.
@lolz1500 10 years ago

The colours actually move around as you zoom in, awesome!
@gijane02 2 years ago

This song is relaxing
@fanhillary 12 years ago

I can't stop looking at it! :O captivating..
@user-sj4dk2nk1v 5 years ago

Thank you my dear <3 Blessing <3 <3
@gregasola 14 years ago

fabulous - thanks for the journey
@PlasteredDragon 14 years ago

Beautiful.
@dw1664 13 years ago

Mesmerizing.
@cyyyggnus 13 years ago

Hynotically Awesomatastc!
@user-df2tx9ht1h 1 year ago

Castrol edge is a actually booklets! :O THIS IS A MOMENT!!! :O
@gijane02 2 years ago

Relaxing
@KallesFraktaler 8 years ago

Perturbation and Series Approximation are so beautifully easy but yet so hard to discover.You would have been able to do this zoom on a home PC, 25MHz 386, within days or perhaps some weeks in the early 90s.If we only had known back then...
@senoseno7763 2 years ago

Good job fair
@gijane02 3 years ago

Solemp and solamp are eeepom eemop ~ the seemops
@teamsafa 13 years ago

@NE01337video It is "Sun Silver" by SimonB, you can find it here: jamendo dot com/en/album/22857