GPU Mandelbrot

Infinite Worlds

About this app

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.

Ratings and reviews

Very impressive! It really is incredibly fast! And so far the only app that had 64 bit precision, afaik. (There are so many) I especially like the dynamic iterative drawing. It is just sooo good. Now do a mandelbulb. :P

Fast. Even at the deepest zoom, takes not more than a second to start and 1 or 2 more to finish. Only second behind another that allowed arbitrary zoom and felt instant compared to this

it just crashes when you zoom

What’s new

Update app to target latest Android version