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This is an amazing comment and I would really like to read more if you ever have time to write something up!
by DanBC 6y ago
This is an amazing comment and I would really like to read more if you ever have time to write something up!
- bsenftner 6y agoYour comment prompted me to do some web searching for documents from our work. Here's a YouTube video of a presentation/lecture we made at the B.U Graphics Lab then, with one of our first rendered fractal animations at the 2:30 mark. I remember working on this. We had AED graphics terminals (able to display 256 colors!) connected to an IBM 3090 mainframe. With special priority, our processes calculating a fractal would only require a few minutes per frame at 256x256 resolution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QIhaDvTHXk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QIhaDvTHXk I fucked up once, trying to create a 256x256x256 fractal volume. How we were calculating them then was not optimized, and the hardware then is a fraction of the phone you own, and that hardware then was shared across the entire university... After my priority process calculating that 3D fractal volume was killed, because it ground the entire University Computing Center to a halt, the post mortem calculated how long the process would have required: 36 years. It would not be done yet if left running. Oops.