Burning ship fractal program

[daydreamer]

NO. Complex maths were not covered in high school, neither in chemistry classes at university. Only became aware of complex math when I was introduced to fractals later in life. And, desk tops were barely coming onto the market when I retired in '88 (i.e. 35 years ago!!!!).

I started to appreciate Fern plant and nature more after seen fractals and wondered if a human is a really complex fractal?

I also enjoyed these related strange attractors
https://masm32.com/board/index.php?topic=9402.0

[NoCforMe]

Well, speaking as the author of that fractal program (Burning Ship), I can confidently say that no complex math at all went into that code. At least nothing explicitly complex (meaning anything having to do with √-1).

Here are the iterative formulae I used: you'll note nothing complex in them.

[daydreamer]

Well, speaking as the author of that fractal program (Burning Ship), I can confidently say that no complex math at all went into that code. At least nothing explicitly complex (meaning anything having to do with √-1).

Here are the iterative formulae I used: you'll note nothing complex in them.

great candidate for SIMD version

[NoCforMe]

But it works fine with the FPU; why would I want to use SIMD?

And isn't SIMD lower precision than FPU (80-bit REALs)?

[daydreamer]

But it works fine with the FPU; why would I want to use SIMD?

And isn't SIMD lower precision than FPU (80-bit REALs)?

I dont know whats required precision for Screen resolution xmax= ca 2000 (word),ymax = ca 1500 (word) ?,repeated calculation 3 million times can be loss of precision

I have never tested gdi with SIMT ,each thread draws part of image using its own fpu and getdc

[NoCforMe]

But you didn't answer the question: is SIMD lower resolution (meaning # of bits) than FPU or not? (I actually don't know myself.)