- Released under the GNU GPL
- Hand-optimized SSE assembly Mandelbrot zoomer
- Full interactive control using mouse input
- Palette animation effects
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The age-old question of Chaos Theory: what happens to the weather in New York when a butterfly flaps its wings in Africa? Quite frankly, who cares? :) But I do like pretty pictures, and the Mandelbrot is a universe that not only produces pretty pictures, but is fascinating to study. Unfortunately, it takes lots of power to draw the Mandelbrot fractal, so I wrote a real-time fractal zoomer using hand-optimized SSE to calculate 4 points at once in the Mandelbrot equation. This program requires a CPU with SSE support (Pentium 3 or Athlon XP or higher). Features:
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Copyright 2004 by Fredric Echols
Updated: 01-22-2004