david wrote:
You realize that someday there will be processors capable of making Fractint's Deep Zooming fast, too ...
Except that deep zooming would also expand beyond its current limit of 10^1600 or so, if someone doesn't already have the code to do it sitting out there. I'm guessing here, but, if it's not been done already, it would not be a big step to go to true 'arbitrary precision' with no limits. The computers will never keep up because Math is bigger than Physics. Think of how big the whole basic mandelbrot image done at the current limits of Fractint's deep zooming would be. This is something that could be specified in Fractint and a bit of scripting now. Without compression and quantum computing that is obviously an image the entire universe, as we know it, would not even be able to store. I think we lose sight of just how small a fraction of the parent fractal a zoom of even modest degree represents. Mike