mandelbulber

gerard82 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 05, 2014 2:11 pm **(#1)**

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I've doodled some with mandelbulber.
Here are some of the results.
I've got more but since they are >6MB I'll have to reduce them first.
Gerard,

gerard82 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 05, 2014 2:29 pm **(#2)**

Some more,reduced by converting to jpg.

Wallace · **Posted:** Fri Dec 05, 2014 2:59 pm **(#3)**

That's interesting stuff. :bigthup

Odinbc · **Posted:** Fri Dec 05, 2014 4:19 pm **(#4)**

gerard82, I love the detail and colours. What program are you using?

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Very beautiful gerard... Kudos

gerard82 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 05, 2014 5:10 pm **(#6)**

Thanks for the replies.
@odinbc
I am using mandelbulber-1.21.1.
There are newer versions but Gentoo doesn't carry them.
I tried to compile them myself but there's a problem I can't solve.
Here is more info: http://www.mandelbulber.com/
Be aware it uses lots of cpu power.
Gerard.

Erisian · **Posted:** Mon Dec 08, 2014 6:28 am **(#7)**

Nice use of colour gerard.

gerard82 · **Posted:** Mon Dec 08, 2014 10:30 am **(#8)**

Thanks Erisian,
Colors are produced and chosen by the program.
They may change unpredictively when you change something unrelated to color.
Results I don't like I simply delete.
Gerard.

mackenzieh · **Posted:** Sun Feb 15, 2015 1:50 pm **(#9)**

What's the better program? Mandelbulber or Mandelbulb 3D? I ask since Mandelbulb 3D is no longer updated but Mandelbulber uses a lot of CPU power. I have Mandelbulb 3D, I just want to know the difference.

gerard82 · **Posted:** Sun Feb 15, 2015 2:16 pm **(#10)**

Hi mackenzieh,
AFAIK they are written by the same people.
Given that both do a lot of number crunching I don't think there's much diff in CPU time.
Unfortunately they don't make use of the GPU.
The modern Linux kernel can be made to use nVidia GPU time in case the software calls it.
Don't know about other brands of graphic cards.
But for either mandelbulber it makes no diff anyway.
Gerard.

mackenzieh · **Posted:** Sun Feb 15, 2015 2:53 pm **(#11)**

gerard82 wrote:

Hi mackenzieh,
AFAIK they are written by the same people.
Given that both do a lot of number crunching I don't think there's much diff in CPU time.
Unfortunately they don't make use of the GPU.
The modern Linux kernel can be made to use nVidia GPU time in case the software calls it.
Don't know about other brands of graphic cards.
But for either mandelbulber it makes no diff anyway.
Gerard.

Oh, okay. I will stick with mandelbulb 3d since I already have it & it works on Windows 7. So in other words, there is no difference? Right?

Kimba · **Posted:** Thu Mar 19, 2015 10:47 pm **(#12)**

I understood that Mandelbulber is for Linux and that Mandelbulb 3d is for Windows and Macs.