Відео

The final destination is butterfly-like. I noticed that only sometime after I had found the 2D picture, because the "construction" isn't quite the same. (Where "construction" means influencing/tweaking the structures by using known side-effects of zooming into places adjacent to a structure to be tweaked.)

The heights need to be bent heavily, dynamically for each location and magnification. Otherwise ramps and slopes would not look good. In fact, at the very start and at the very end, the landscape tends to become too flat. Near the beginning is all mesas and steep cliffs, and near the end things devolve towards a flat plain with a few mountain needles. I am still experimenting to improve this aspect. In any case, the heights are always a lie. The horizontal magnification factor and the vertical magnification factor are independent, regardless of the non-linear height shaping.

Sorry, no. I feel that my code is ugly and barely usable, even after the recent rewrites. Nevertheless I am honored that people find it intersting enough to ask. There certainly are some fragments that would be useful right away; and I could surely benefit from other people's contributions. So opening the code up is an option I have been considering again and again when requested. Everything is just so ... unfinished. And I keep rewriting parts from scratch. It's messy and not something to be proud of. 🙂

Because the possibilities are still infinite.

Very true

The core of it all is a boring straight line zoom to a destination point. To make it a bit more dramatic, I oscillate the center of this zoom movie around the center of the view (alternatively one could say the zoom movie is scrolling to and fro horizontally and vertically). Likewise I can slowly (or sometimes not so slowly) rotate the 2D view around the center. And finally this 2D zoom ride is rendered as elevation map, turning the smooth sailing into an exhilarating skydive straight out of an action flick. There is a slight bump at the end. I don't think it should be there, so I probably have a bug in the code that is meant to smooth out the whole path.

How many steps before escaping to infinity. Usually it go3s ibto a spiral and into one point, but sometimes it gets out of the spiral, and the less steps it takes, the higher it is. If it takes 0 steps, its at the highest point, and if it stays in, it is empty.

The mandelbrotcrack

Isnt that hilarious?

@@Jestnarr It's Hilbertarious :D

The software I am using is just my own experimentation toolkit. To me, thinking about the programs and about speeding them up is part of the journey.

​@@procedupixel213 so you are using SDL2

i would love a tutorial! i’d like to implement vr with spaces like these

Some areas of the Mandelbrot set have nicknames. One is often called seahorse (or seahorse valley for the region where those are). When viewed as an elevation map, that place seemed more like a shoreline to me. So seahorse coast, or abbreviated just horse coast.

*bong rip noises*

@@Djellowman Nope. Solitary thinking tranquility.

​​@@Life_42 yep(agreeing with your rebuttal). Though people do speculate if there are fractal dimensions through which the particles of existence emerge and re-emerge over infinitely long time scales.

@@AkkarisFox It is very possible. Quantum physics pops into my mind when thinking about your comment.