I found your rendering of the nebulabrot and truly like its quality. I downloaded the hq png image, split the two existing colorlayers, seperately changed the colors, played with brightness courves and some selective gaussian blur filter – the result is an amazing poster that nicely decorates our livingroom :) It was possible to print it in 300dpi at 60x80cm, what looks truly impressive, big but jet very detailed. So: thanks a lot!

Now my question: could you also use your existing code (I know it’s a little outdated already…) to render an anti-nebulabrot? I would like to create another poster, wich should be a conposition of the two images maybe. Like outer frame with inner filling. I already tried that with bad quality images, wich looks nice as an idea, but I could not use it for a Poster (due to its quality).

Or maybe you could send me the code to render it myself? Or maybe you know where to find such an image?

Thanks in advance :)

So when I tried to render it I keep getting an anti-Buddhabrot-like image even though I’m only considering points that tend to infinity. How many escape iterations are needed for the deep-Buddhabrot look? (and what’s a good coloring method?) I’m also curious about how long the job took.

Windows still has pipes. They’re mentioned here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365780(VS.85).aspx (When this link fails to work: Ask Google about “Windows Pipes” or “Named Windows Pipes”)

Are they *functionally* that much different from UNIX pipes?

The point is that he wrote the software himself using the map-reduce programming model – it’s not that tough if you happen to have a map-reduce cluster lying around (or even if you don’t – the map-reduce model works with unix pipes; which are in OSX, and were on Windows NT too, but I think they removed pipes in XP)

I’m trying to make my own renders but I’m not having much luck finding a good program. It seems it’s the big thing for everyone to render a mandlebrot sent and not tell what program was used.

Is your code posted somewhere?