Burning ship fractal program

[NoCforMe]

Here's a program I wrote several years ago that displays the "burning ship" fractal. It shows static images that you can zoom into and out of. It's quite a fractal, very spooky-looking with lots and lots of surprising detail in certain areas. Please play around with it if you like. Use File--> Create fractal... to display an image. I have a list of preset images, or you can play around with the parameters. Once an image is displayed you can right-click and use the popup menu to zoom in. Left-click to choose the position on which to center the zoom-in.

I wish it did more, like being able to interactively zoom and pan around. But since the images are so computational-intensive, this isn't easy to do. And when zooming in, I find the zoom-in "bottoms out" before too long; the problem here is that zooming in is accomplished by restricting the range of the image, and pretty soon the numbers get too small for the FPU to deal with them. Haven't figured out how to get around that.

I'll post the code if anyone's interested. It's pretty big and complicated, but as with all my stuff I'm certainly willing to share it.

There are some really good burning ship videos on YouTube to show the incredible complexity of deep zooms.

[NoCforMe]

Here are the formulas that create this fractal. Pretty simple. Amazing that such complexity arises out of them; where does all that stuff come from?

[zedd151]

Here are the formulas that create this fractal. Pretty simple. Amazing that such complexity arises out of them; where does all that stuff come from?

Benoit B. Mandelbrot.   https://nnart.org/history-of-fractals/#Benoit_B_Mandelbrot_Father_of_Fractals

[jj2007]

Looks good, but why does bs.exe take almost half a minute to launch?

When I open it with Olly, it takes 20 seconds to load the DLLs etc; once ready, when I press F9 to run bs.exe, it shows the dialog immediately.

This is on Win7-64. In my XP VM, it comes up immediately. Very weird

[Mikl__]

Hi, NoCforMe!

[NoCforMe]

Looks good, but why does bs.exe take almost half a minute to launch?

I have no idea. I noticed the same thing. At first I though it was maybe Windows Defender frowning and wondering whether it should permit the program to run.

Windoze 7(64) Pro here.

When I open it with Olly, it takes 20 seconds to load the DLLs etc; once ready, when I press F9 to run bs.exe, it shows the dialog immediately.

This is on Win7-64. In my XP VM, it comes up immediately. Very weird

[NoCforMe]

Hi, NoCforMe!

Right back atcha! How's tricks with you? Did you try the fractal thing?

[Greenhorn]

Looks good 

[NoCforMe]

Looks good 

Thanks. Any suggestions? This was my first and only fractal program. I'd like to be able to dive deeper into the pattern.

[six_L]

Hi，NoCforMe
Looks good. 
The Mandelbrot Fractals are amazing. There are so many variants.

[NoCforMe]

Ackshooly, the burning ship fractal isn't part of the Mandelbrot set, strictly speaking. At most it's a variant of that set.

Still, it's all very cool. So many strange images!

[raymond]

Hi，NoCforMe
Just had a look at it. Interesting.   Will explore it further.

While on the subject of the Mandelbrot set, I got interested in it many many many years ago and I attempted to write my own program. For the curious ones not yet aware of it, you may d/l it from the same area as my FPU tut, where I cover complex numbers, i.e.

http://www.ray.masmcode.com/complex.html

Enjoy

Just remembered that the "Help" file may not be usable unless you have an old version of Windows.       

[mineiro]

Arthur C Clarke - Fractals: The Colours of Infinity (1995):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyeR19m8gGk
Also about fractal compression.

[daydreamer]

cool NoCforme
@raymond ,when you still worked did you used complex math?
when I went to school as teenager as electronics engineer,we also got some training in AC electric engines and taught complex math for the phase shift and how to compensate it with add condensator

[raymond]

@raymond ,when you still worked did you used complex math?

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!!!!).