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The Mandelbrot set - the fractal 'snowman turned on its side' seen above - has graced the covers of magazines, journals, and has even been exhibited in art galleries. An impressive feat for what is nothing more than a mathematical function, and has become something of an obsession for [Chiaki Nakajima]. Even on modern computers, generating an image of a portion of the Mandelbrot set takes a … [Read more...]
This fractal viewer is a great way to get your feet wet with Field-Programmable Gate Arrays. The project will give you some experience working with video output, user input, and a whole bunch of math and memory management. [Hamster] built it using the Papilio Plus board which hosts a Spartan 6 FPGA. This continues his odyssey into the realm of hardware design; part of which we looked at back in … [Read more...]
[Mike Field] has always been interested in the Mandelbrot Set since he first read about it back in the ‘80s. Having coded it on a Commodore VIC20 back int he day, he always returned to the Mandelbrot set when he wanted to try out some new programming technology. He wanted to delve deeper into the world of FPGAs, so [Mike] figured the best way to do so would be to use one to program a … [Read more...]
Following Maker Faire, we’ve had a few days to poke around with Digilent's 32-bit Arduino-compatible chipKIT boards and compiler. We have some initial performance figures to report, along with impressions of the hardware and software. … [Read more...]
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