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Mandelbrot

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The Mandelbrot Set is a fractal named after mathematician BenoƮt Mandelbrot.

This simple Flash application allows exploring this beautiful fractal.

Usage:
Hover the mouse over the + or - buttons to zoom in or out.
Hover the mouse over the arrow buttons to move.
Press the R button to reset zoom and position to original state.
Keyboard S zooms in.
Keyboard D zooms out.
Keyboard arrow keys move.

This may require a fast computer to have fluent animation.

Tip: Zoom near the complex borders of the fractal to view infinitely deep complexity. Try to discover "minibrots", which are much smaller, sometimes rotated, copies of the Mandelbrot's main shape.

Update: Due to popular demand, added keyboard controls! Use CTRL+F5 or CTRL+SHIFT+R in your browser in the window that shows the flash to hard-refresh to ensure the newly uploaded flash is there. Click on the flash movie with the mouse to ensure it has keyboard focus before the keys work.

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Trip city dawg. But seriously, neat time killer.

if you zoom in far enough then it just becomes pixelated. I assume this is just a limitation of the algorithm youre using because the image file would still have to be huge. colors are nice though.

Aardwolf responds:

Yep, it's due to a limitation of the double precision floating point numbers used, that's the deepest it can go without using arbitrary precision numbers!

I agree

keyboard controls would be all to easy to add and yet it would add all the difference
apart from that simplistic and beautiful

Aardwolf responds:

Done! It works rather smooth on my computer: arrow keys to move, S and D to zoom in/out.

Controls could be better

This was pretty nice, although not really a game. One time in high school I input a program into my crappy Casio graphing calculator that was supposed to plot Mandlebrot, not knowing what the heck it was. I had to restart the damn thing. Like others have said, keyboard controls would be a monstrous improvement.

Whoa

At first i was like "wtf this is lame...."
But I went back read the description and zoomed in.

And i gotta tell ya, Its amazing. Its so complex and intracet, and im not sure, but it seems like it goes on forever.

Seriously man, this is both thrippy, and cool.

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