Skypher » fractal http://skypher.com The blog for absolutely nothing! Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:26:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Mandelbrot in PHP http://skypher.com/index.php/2008/05/26/mandelbrot-in-php/ http://skypher.com/index.php/2008/05/26/mandelbrot-in-php/#comments Mon, 26 May 2008 21:48:42 +0000 Cipher http://skypher.com/?p=12 After reading up on SkyLined’s post I thought it might be nice to try some in PHP...]]> After reading up on SkyLined’s post I thought it might be nice to try some in PHP. I first Googled for an example and quickly found this post:

http://cow.neondragon.net/index.php/2680-Php-Fractal-Generator

Unfortunately that is quite inefficient. So I made some adjustments. I can now render a 500*500 pixel fractal in 15-16 seconds on my laptop (1.2Ghz DualCore, one used) (see image). That is quite faster than the example.
(I’ll test on this server and at work for reference, watch for updates). I’ll post the code here soon.

Next up is a mashup between SkyLined’s and my script to have PHP render the ASCII art fractals and animations, maybe I can render animated gifs :-)

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