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more pixel bender fun

Posted by mike - October 1st, 2008


here's another fun thing I've been playing with: rendering fractals! I was inspired by Keith Peters and his Mandelbrot viewer, so I decided to rig up a Julia set viewer in Pixel Bender.

Julia Fractal Viewer (requires Pixel Bender toolkit)

I wish I could rig it up to run in Flash 10, but unfortunately the Flash implementation of Pixel Bender doesn't support loops -- bummer!

edit: Glaiel made a Mandelbrot renderer in PB a few months back -- check it out!

more pixel bender fun


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woah, thats, well, cool and disorientating at the same time
1st comment(hopefully)

oh, so, so very cool!

so there is no way to get around and get it into flash?
bugger
they better freaking update flash

I know, it's a little bit of a downer!

Damn I miss the little icons under the authors username, where people to fucking stupid to figure out what it was. Tear the icons will be missed.

looks cool

Whoa (O_o)

I'm getting DIzzy...

damn it mike :(

<a href="http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/934649">http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/9 34649</a>

yours looks so much better than mine

haha, you beat me by a couple months, though! :)
cool stuff!

oh and if you wanted it to run in flash it probably wouldn't be too hard to write a program to unfold the loop and replace all the ifs with ?: operators, which you can use in flash compatible filters. Of course, it might run like crap but it would be flash compatible.

Lol, you said my name :3

I LIKE STUFF...

I read Joa Ebert has been on the topic of Pixel Bender loops. I haven't really had time to look at it, but here's the link in case you don't know.

<a href="http://blog.joa-ebert.com/2008/09/08/pixelbender-runtime-compilation/">http://blog.joa-ebert.com/2008/09/08/
pixelbender-runtime-compilation/</a>

Some say looking at fractals is looking at God. There's a very famous one: <a href="http://mail.colonial.net/~abeckwith/images/mset.gif">http://mail.colonial.net/~abeckwith/i mages/mset.gif</a> I think have been mentioned.

its similar to Paint.NET... kinda

This is so sexy.

Nice!

Off-topic though, I was wondering, since you created the Audio Portal visualisations, if you could port them to Windows Media Player?

I'm so high

cool pic if it was a stained window glass it might sell $

I considered writing a Mandelbrot viewer in AS2 once. (I haven't bothered to upgrade from Flash 8.)

I'm going to install Pixel Bender as soon as I either upgrade OS X or get back on my PC.

Hey! The mandelbrot set! I was so obsessed with this for a while. I made some wallpapers with it and put it on my website. Wallpapers are the only interesting thing on that site :(

wow this makes me dizzy.....and my eye starts bleeding....wtf!!??

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