Explore the beautiful Mandelbrot set with the full power of your GPU shaders.
Not recently updated — last update was on 2023-08-31.
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About GPU Mandelbrot
GPU Mandelbrot is an education app developed by Infinite Worlds.
Download Statistics
GPU Mandelbrot has been downloaded 21 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 400 times.
User Ratings
GPU Mandelbrot is rated 4.07 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 94 ratings.
App Information
GPU Mandelbrot is FREE to download. The APK download size is 184.22 kB. The latest version available is 1.1.2. The last update was on August 31, 2023.
Technical Requirements
GPU Mandelbrot requires Android 2.3+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play September 2014.
Description
A very fast and fully GPU based way to explore and capture shots of the beautiful and infinite Mandelbrot set.
This app pushes the GPU to the limit by doing all the calculations in GLSL shaders and should be much faster than CPU based methods. At large zoom levels the shader code emulates double precision in a vertex shader and manages on most low end devices to get at least 43 bit precision instead of the normal 10 bit.
Try all the different options. Use two fingers or double tap to zoom. By holding a finger on the screen you can pan and zoom for as long as you like. The fractal will be updated when you stop touching the screen.
Turn off the automatic shader picker and manually try the different modes. The GLSL code is based on www.thasler.org/blog/?p=93 and uses some unusual constructs that some graphics drivers might treat differently.
Recent changes: Update app to target latest Android version
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Very fast, very, very fast this is very fast. There is one nice palette, the pastel rainbow one. And it's very fast. Save works, but no rotate, no palette edit/cycle, no autozoom. Pinch-zoom though. Displays parameters, useful for transferring to another app, would be nice to be able to copy-paste/share those, I guess.
★★★★☆Giles Read· Feb 3, 2017
Works brilliantly - up to a point. This is the fastest Mandelbrot generation I've ever seen, BUT after I zoomed in and agreed to use emulated double precision it slowed the whole device to absolute slug speed. If this could be overcome, and it could keep up its speed into deep zooms then it would be far and away the fastest and best Mandelbrot generator. It's just not quite there yet.
★★★★★A Google User· Mar 18, 2015
Wow! This is so fast and fluid, one can explore the fractal world and see its beauty. The slow rendering of several others I have tried to spoil the experience a bit. Would like to find one as good for other fractal sets.
★☆☆☆☆Konrad Anikiel· Mar 30, 2015
Is this a joke? OpenGL error on a Tegra 3.
★☆☆☆☆Angela Henry· Dec 23, 2023
GARBAGE 🗑️ GARBAGE TRASH TRASH TRASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EVEN MANDLEBROWSER IS BETTER WITH INSANE ZOOM LEVELS TO AROUND 10^160 BEFORE CRASHING
★★☆☆☆Stefan Muth· Mar 1, 2017
Crashes, locks, streaks. Nice concept but useless. Samsung S5
★★☆☆☆Fred Green· Nov 16, 2017
Hangs when zooming on both of my devices. Good idea - bad implementation.
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