I’m a Christian and software engineer; I create random graphics projects and websites. Feel free to ask me for help with programming, or about my faith!

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  • KiranWells@pawb.socialtoProgramming@programming.dev•what's the coolest thing you have ever programmed?
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    https://github.com/KiranWells/corgi

    Like a lot of graphics programmers, I fell into the rabbit hole of rendering fractals. However, I never stopped - over the past couple of years I have slowly been building one of the most sophisticated Mandelbrot/Julia rendering programs that I am aware of. It has a mostly intuitive user interface, and does all of the calculations on the GPU. It has to use a bunch of mathematical tricks to get around the limits of single-point precision available in shaders. Because of the GPU rendering algorithm, I’ve managed to view fractal locations at around 10^250 times magnification with near real-time performance.

    I also built a really in-depth compositing/coloring system, allowing you to make some really crazy images and get a lot of variation even for the same location:

    A grid of 9 rendered fractals, each one with the same rendered location but drastically different coloring styles.

    Although it has only been me working on it, I think it is in a pretty mature state so far, and I would gladly take PRs/issues if anyone happens to be interested. It should support any OS if you compile it from source, but I don’t have binary releases set up yet.