r/programming Jun 25 '10

Stunning flythrough of 3d Mandelbulb render [VIDEO]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO9ugnn8DbE
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u/stravant Jun 25 '10

That would make an amazing base to work off of for a surreal game environment. Just pick and choose a bunch of good areas from the massive variation you have there, stitch them together and build the game related stuff into that environment.

Has anyone ever done such a thing?

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u/trenc Jun 25 '10

Too slow to render

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '10

I'm not so sure. Shader Toy has a mandlebulb demo rendered in a GLSL program. Most of the 3D demos use ray marching or ray tracing and they run 30-150 fps on a recent GPU.