GPU Mandelbrot
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About GPU Mandelbrot
A very fast and fully GPU based way to explore and capture shots of the beautiful and infinite Mandelbrot set.
This app pushes the GPU to the limit by doing all the calculations in GLSL shaders and should be much faster than CPU based methods. At large zoom levels the shader code emulates double precision in a vertex shader and manages on most low end devices to get at least 43 bit precision instead of the normal 10 bit.
Try all the different options. Use two fingers or double tap to zoom. By holding a finger on the screen you can pan and zoom for as long as you like. The fractal will be updated when you stop touching the screen.
Turn off the automatic shader picker and manually try the different modes. The GLSL code is based on www.thasler.org/blog/?p=93 and uses some unusual constructs that some graphics drivers might treat differently.
This app pushes the GPU to the limit by doing all the calculations in GLSL shaders and should be much faster than CPU based methods. At large zoom levels the shader code emulates double precision in a vertex shader and manages on most low end devices to get at least 43 bit precision instead of the normal 10 bit.
Try all the different options. Use two fingers or double tap to zoom. By holding a finger on the screen you can pan and zoom for as long as you like. The fractal will be updated when you stop touching the screen.
Turn off the automatic shader picker and manually try the different modes. The GLSL code is based on www.thasler.org/blog/?p=93 and uses some unusual constructs that some graphics drivers might treat differently.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
Small visual fixes for newer Android devices.
Recompiled against new Android SDK.
Fixed OpenGL Error.
Small visual fixes for newer Android devices.
Recompiled against new Android SDK.
Fixed OpenGL Error.
Version update GPU Mandelbrot was updated to version 1.0.2
More downloads GPU Mandelbrot reached 1 000 - 5 000 downloads
Version update GPU Mandelbrot was updated to version 1.0.1
More downloads GPU Mandelbrot reached 500 - 1 000 downloads
What are users saying about GPU Mandelbrot
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Very fast, compared to others; however when pushed to extremes it managed to crash and actually reboot Android itself due to the strain. Looks like you could benefit from some multithreading
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Crashes, locks, streaks. Nice concept but useless. Samsung S5
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Crashed on Nexus 7.
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Hangs when zooming on both of my devices. Good idea - bad implementation.
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Crashes on my s4mini when more than ~70 iterarions. Please update!
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Fantastically fast and really easy to use. But once you hit emulated double precision it just hangs.
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by R####:
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This is so fast and fluid, one can explore the fractal world and see its beauty. The slow rendering of several others I have tried spoil the experience a bit. Would like to find one as good for other fractal sets.
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OpenGL error on a Tegra 3.
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this is very fast. there is one nice palette, the pastel rainbow one. and it's very fast. save works, but no rotate, no palette edit/cycle, no autozoom. pinch-zoom though. displays parameters, useful for transferring to another app, would be nice to be able to copy-paste/share those, i guess.
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Was cool
by X####:
Works brilliantly - up to a point. This is the fastest Mandelbrot generation I've ever seen, BUT after I zoomed in and agreed to use emulated double precision it slowed the whole device to absolute slug speed. If this could be overcome and it could keep up its speed into deep zooms then it would be far and away the fastest and best Mandelbrot generator. It's just not quite there yet.