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BASIC Developer & Support Resources => Open Forum => Topic started by: John on November 21, 2013, 10:05:49 PM
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Supposedly it's the deepest zoom-in animation on record. It's computed on a machine with 12 CPUs for 6 months, in 2010.
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A sense of Scale:
http://www.falstad.com/scale/
From the smallest known particle to the distance of the farthest known object: 10^-15 .. 4x10^26.
A span of 4x10^41
So at 10^275, the zoom spans this cosmic scale about 7 times over!
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The limit isn't the math, it's a limit on how many decimal places our computers can process. In the first level, it is showing integers from 0-99, with one integer represented by 1 pixel. Then it zooms in and shows integers 0-9, with each of those pixels representing 1/10 of an integer. The next level of zoom shows integers from 0-1, with each pixel representing 1/100 of an integer. This animation ends with each pixel representing 1/10^275 or a decimal with 275 zeros before reaching a 1.
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I noticed this (http://mandelbrot-dazibao.com/) on the FreeBASIC forum (http://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=21585) which expands on this existing topic.