GPUFractal-1

Jarrett Billingsley kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 18 05:35:19 PDT 2007


"Burton Radons" <burton-radons at shaw.ca> wrote in message 
news:ff5ns5$2qb3$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Hey guys, I've been fooling around with GLSL recently and realised I could 
> do a Mandelbrot fractal at full frame rate, so I implemented a kind of 
> mini-Ultra Fractal.
>
> It works in single pass, so, uh, save your work before you try it because 
> it just might cause your card to freeze if its GLSL support sucks or it 
> isn't VERY good at branching shaders. If it works on your machine, I'd 
> like to hear of it; if it doesn't, I'd also like to hear of it. For 
> reference, my setup is an NVIDIA 8800 GTX (beta drivers) on Windows Vista 
> with an Intel Dual Core 2.66GHz processor. I can confirm that it doesn't 
> work on an ATI Radeon 9800 on Windows XP.
>
> The interface is exclusively mouse based. Left mouse button to zoom in, 
> right mouse button to zoom out, middle mouse button to scroll. Using the 
> mouse wheel puts you in variable mode. The mouse wheel selects the current 
> variable, dragging the left mouse button changes it (enumerations and 
> floats are changed by dragging to the right or left), clicking the middle 
> mouse button resets to the initial value, and right clicking returns to 
> zoom/scroll mode.
>
> You can modify or add to the formulas while it's running, look in the 
> subdirectories.
>
> http://members.shaw.ca/burton-radons/GPUFractal-1.7z (binary, 204KB)
> http://members.shaw.ca/burton-radons/GPUFractal-1-source.7z (source, 
> 1,360KB)
>
> The source is pretty shit and will require slight modification of the 
> makefile's paths to compile. I use D v1 and bud.

Works great, GeForce 8600.  I zoomed in really far and saw that fractals 
really _don't_ go on forever!  I knew it!

;) 





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