Kevin Wampler wrote:

> It probably depends on what graphics card you have as to weather or not 
> you can do this on it, but you might take a look at CUDA, a C compiler 
> revently released by nvidia that allows you to write things for the GPU:

Yeah, CUDA seems the obvious way to do this.

Unfortunately, only GeForce 8 and newer support this technology. I have 
a GeForce 7900GT. :-(

(Also... I get the impression you need Vista for the GeForce 8 to work.)

> You'll, of course, need to design your IFS algorithm so that it can be 
> run in a highly parallel manner, but unless I'm missing something that 
> should be pretty straightforward in this case (just run multiple 
> iterators simultaneously).  Of course, not having ever done this sort of 
> thing increases the chances that I'll have missed something :-)

There are 3 processes that need to happen.

1. A stream of coordinates needs to be generated.
2. A histogram of the coordinates needs to be constructed.
3. A non-linear mapping from histogram frequencies to colours is performed.

Step 2 looks to be the tricky one - but it shouldn't be *vastly* 
difficult I think. The question is whether the histograms will fit into 
the limited RAM on the card...

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