Hooray

So I figured I would actually do something programming related. IFS fractals are cool, so I decided to implement a fractal flame algorithm that runs on the GPU (just like this).

Mine's not quite as cool, but here are a couple renders:

Ye Olde Sierpinski:


Some fancier ones:







Other things I'd like to do with it:

• HDR tone mapping - right now it's just a log density effect
• Gaussian blur/glowy stuff
• Kernel density estimation - to help smooth out the noise

This all runs realtime (a pretty reasonable framerate on my 6600), so eventually I'd like to get some animation going.