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GPU Fractal Rendering

Why fractals love massive parallelism — and why deep precision complicates the party.

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GPU Fractal Rendering fractal artwork
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Millions of independent pixels

Escape-time rendering is naturally parallel because each pixel starts from a separate coordinate. GPUs can evaluate enormous groups of orbits simultaneously.

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Deep zoom becomes hybrid

CPU / big-number referenceCompute a high-precision reference orbit.
GPU perturbationEvaluate nearby pixel deltas cheaply.
Adaptive iterationsSpend work near difficult boundary regions.
Tile schedulingPrioritize visible tiles while reusing cache.
Progressive refinementShow coarse preview, then improve.
Palette remapRecolor cached iteration data instantly.
Sources & further reading:Deep zoom theory and practiceUltra Fractal — Perturbation