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Deepest Mandelbrot Set Zoom Animation ever - a New Record! 10^275 (2.1E275 or 2^915)

Orson Wang · demo · Watch on YouTube

Recreational & visual mathCreative coding & generative art

What it is

A Mandelbrot set zoom animation reaching a magnification of about 2.1x10^275, claimed as the deepest at the time (January 2010). Each frame was rendered separately over six months on 12 CPU cores.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN uses it as a reference point for how deep Mandelbrot zooms can go and how much compute they once took.

  • 1 people recommended it
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What HN commenters said

  1. “Not as far but much better video”

    Alternative deep zoom video the commenter calls better

    Retric, 2018-05 · Recommendation · in “High-Resolution Mandelbrot in Obfuscated Python (2011)”

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Topics: mandelbrot set, fractals, deep zoom, animation, self-similarity

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