I take another look at my Mandelbrot code because we recently did a project with antialiasing in a raytracer. I updated my project so that instead of bouncing light, it would instead sample a point on the complex plane, and determine if it was in the Mandelbrot set, and so on and so forth.

I ran the code with 10 passes and 16,384 by 16,384 pixels (~27 megapixels) on my desktop. It took about an hour and a half, but this is the picture that came out of it (it’s a little big):

[caption id=”” align=”aligncenter” width=”300” caption=”A recent rendering of mine of the Mandelbrot set.”][/caption]

I also have a couple of extra pictures that show portions of the set in their detail: [caption id=”attachment475” align=”aligncenter” width=”300” caption=”A region of the Mandelbrot set.”][/caption] [caption id=”attachment476” align=”aligncenter” width=”300” caption=”Another zoomed-in portion of the set.”][/caption]