Younger forum members might not have encountered the awesomeness of the Mandelbrot set, so apologies to older/science-computing-maths ones who've been there and got the t-shirt. I just wish someone had showed me this when I was 18. I might've given maths more of a chance. (this is delicious 720p, you must eat it) This particular one was so good I copped out and bought the HD version (the youtube upload isn't the full length). It took 6 months to render and the final magnification is x2^760 (so they say - I'm not checking). edit - Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, don't try running or moving around a lot after watching that.
I actually wrote a program a month ago to do just this, its greyscale rather than colour right now as I haven't had the time to do any work on it
You claim that us young'uns have no knowledge of this yet I saw no thread on here when Madlebrot himself passed away a few weeks ago. Honestly, adults these days!
Hardly, I'm not even in employment yet I've found that the full video can be put to pretty much any music and remain mind-blowing. Classical music in particular.
I never realized how much this is like the journey into V'Ger from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYpNJ_5fTKQ I don't believe that they could have used the Mandelbrot fractal as inspiration. The film was produced in 1978, the same year that we produced the first renderings, but computer algorithms did not popularize the topic until the 80's.* *Wikipedia
