On 20/07/2011 04:53 PM, Invisible wrote:
> Sticking with the theme of computational computer graphics...
>
> Thanks to Mike, I discovered Mandelbulber, a program which plots various
> 3D fractal types, in the manner of POV-Ray's "julia" object. (Indeed,
> that exact object is one of the things it can plot.)
>
> Basically I'm sitting here trying to figure out how it's possible to
> render these images in less than the age on the Universe.

To give you some idea of what I'm talking about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO9ugnn8DbE

I've wasted hours of render time yet never come up with anything even 
slightly worth looking at. I shiver to think what the render time for 
the above video might be...

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