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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Mandelbrot Madness
Keywords: Mandelbrot
Message-ID: <804@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 91 08:18:12 GMT
References: <188483a4.ARN09773@prolix.ccadfa.oz.au> <1991Jan27.074838.10517@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <18986df1.ARN27d8@prolix.ccadfa.oz.au> <1991Jan29.133659.20006@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1991Jan29.133659.20006@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>
>>> Of course, the last Mandelbrot demo I wrote was for a 28-processor
>>> transputer system, so I had it in places where 15,000 iterations was
>>> too fuzzy; I had to go to 17,000. At 513x513 resolution, this wrapped
>>> the flops counter past 2^32.
>
>> Right. (512^2) * 17000 = 4.4*10^12 flops.
>
>Much too slow. If you can't do full screen resolution (preferably
>1280x1024) to the needed number of iterations (here 17,000, but pick 32K
>for a nice number), at the frame rate of the display (say 60 frames per
>second) then you don't have enough horsepower yet.

Yes, that's the point. I REALLY WANT a flight simulator program where
I can fly with mouse control through the valleys of MandelMountains!
As long as our computers don't provide this, they are still much too
slow!

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
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