I'm trying to learn Computer Graphics with Vulkan. It's a bit hard. But I have followed some tutorials and I have some basic knowledge now.
To check if I can do something with it, I'll try to make a simple program to render the Mandelbrot Fractal.
If I have some half-results I'll post them here !
The first result is here ! I can open a window and have bug withing my shader ! (ideally you should see a circle here somewhere :D )
I think it's a problem of padding and memory alignment but this is something I don't quite understand yet
I "solved" it by doing things at random !
Now the size of the circle and the color is wrong but, progress
Ok ! So right now, I'm sure I do pass the right parameters to my shaders !
Thanks to this magic of alignas that I don't understand.
The fragment shader have for every pixel of the window an associated complex number that will be used to compute the mandelbrot fractal.
But that's for tomorrow. I need to sleep !
OK I lied, I just added keyboard control of the parameters :
- center of the fractal
- zoom level
now sleep
OK, back to work, here just a simple threshold but we can already see a fun little shape !
Now I have to check how to draw a Mandelbrot set in fact I have no precise idea of how to do this :')
It is possible to zoom in to view a bit more details but I would have thougt to see a lot more even with only single precision... I think I'm missing something
OK, it's because I need to add more "max iterations" and corresponding colors
I think here I go up until the precision of the GPU !
Look at this zoom !!!
I'm happy.
I could see for more beautiful colors ; multisampling also, aaaand maybe to see how I can obtain even more precision but this is a topic I don't know so maybe but maybe not
@nausicaa Now i want to play with fractals too. Don't know if i'll make something as pretty as this but... darn this is pretty.
I have supersampling and a basic handling of color palette ! Now, pause, I need to eat. And maybe I'll think about infinite precision but on GPU I'm not sure :x