hpdz.net

Mission

This site is dedicated to producing high-precision deep-zoom animations and still images of the Mandelbrot set.

True fractal art is the objective here, not art containing pictures of fractals.

"Citius, Profundius, Fortius"

Updates

7/30/08	Added Canyon1. This is the first Mandelbrot animation to demonstrate my new adaptive optimizing coloring system, which is the first major innovation in fractal animation rendering technology to come along in several years.
7/15/08	Added HD1. Final upload of the True-HD 1200x900 version completed 7/17/08. Added Henon map ("Phoenix") fractal still images page. Minor tweaks to site color scheme to improve readability. Notable quote below (scroll down).
7/6/08	Added Ununennius, the new deepest no-nonsense zoom ever. Added DEHP-III, a full-resolution rework of DEHP-II, much improved! New power supply and 500GB hard drive for the animation system.
5/25/08	Added Rift. Smaller and better encoding of Tevaris in MP4 format.
5/3/08	Added Metaphase. Smaller preview-size videos for Prima Luce and ProjectX.
4/27/08	Added Prima Luce and ProjectX. Additional cosmetic improvements to web site. Painful recovery from nasty Trojan infection on development system.
4/10/08	Web site face lift. Working on first production-quality animation with quad-core system.
4/4/08	New computer has arrived! Very exciting!
4/3/08	Added a Technical animations section showing some of my early problems and tests of new techniques
4/2/08	Added Tevaris video -- one of the most beautiful deep zooms ever created!
4/1/08	Added external links page
4/1/08	Added Centanimus

"NO, PLEASE! Not deep-zooms!!! I don't want to tie up my computer with those - generally boring - images, and I don't want to download them (my phone bill is already way too high...)."

- FractInt Digest 29 Mar 1998 (author unknown)

Questions?

What the heck is a fractal? What's a Mandelbrot set? What is this all about? I've written a short explanation. The web is full of dozens of others, some of which I have listed on the Links page. E-mail me with any questions or comments and I'll be glad to answer. I hope I can build a good page explaining how this works and your comments and questions will help greatly with that.

The Mandelbrot Set