Damn biggest Fractal Print I've ever seen

(that’s a person lying next to the poster)

I went on and generated, then printed a 2.25 x 1.5 meter (7.3 x 4.9 feet) Mandelbrot-Set poster. It’s higher than Michael Jordan and almost as wide as the average sedan. It has presence because of the shear amount of data it embodies. It’s made up of 25 digital printouts, each printout is 45×30 cm and has a resolution of 400dpi.

When you walk by large posters you will usualy notice they are made out of very large pixels, sometimes you’ll even be able to notice the RGB components seperately (ala fake mode). This is because we usualy don’t have enough data to fill such large posters with.

The thing with fractals, is that they are infinitely large, and thus can fill up as much space as we have to spare. This one has 850 Mega-Pixel of data.

This program lets you generate Mandelbrot-Sets of any size and precision, and automatically slice them for easy/cheap printing.

Download: Source, Binary.

5 Comments

nir pengas 2005-04-05T10:42:00+00:00

cool man, how about opening an online store for this kind of merchandise?

Ismael C. 2005-07-26T15:45:00+00:00

Hey pengas is right. You could open a store and sell posters of fractals. I've always thought that they look cool. And I have a friend whose house decoration would look good with a fractal like that.

Anonymous 2007-04-23T10:30:00+00:00

This is terrific! But pardon my ignorance – what do I do with the source code or binary? Which program generates a working fractal-generating program from it?

Anonymous 2007-09-14T05:49:00+00:00

I just got one of my fractals printed too. It was a 100 megapixel image, which i pieced together from 25 seperate 4 megapixel images. At 300dpi it printed at 85 by 85 centimetres. I don't think i could do one as big as yours though as the computer wouldn't be able to open the image for printing lol. [Here](http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs19/f/2007/244/c/8/Rainbow_goo_by_Jinmane.jpg) is the image i got printed. It cost me £50 (that's $100) to print which i thought was a bit much lol, but worth it i guess.

Larry 2008-03-17T07:50:00+00:00

Oh wow thats impressive,but what kind of printer would work that size a print?! I've been into fractals for ages now,would love a program for my DS or neglect mobile phone. Wonder in nintendo made one!(they have a virtual synth out for the DS!)

nir pengas 2005-04-05T10:42:00+00:00

cool man, how about opening an online store for this kind of merchandise?
Ismael C. 2005-07-26T15:45:00+00:00

Hey pengas is right. You could open a store and sell posters of fractals. I've always thought that they look cool. And I have a friend whose house decoration would look good with a fractal like that.
Anonymous 2007-04-23T10:30:00+00:00

This is terrific! But pardon my ignorance – what do I do with the source code or binary? Which program generates a working fractal-generating program from it?
Anonymous 2007-09-14T05:49:00+00:00

I just got one of my fractals printed too. It was a 100 megapixel image, which i pieced together from 25 seperate 4 megapixel images. At 300dpi it printed at 85 by 85 centimetres. I don't think i could do one as big as yours though as the computer wouldn't be able to open the image for printing lol. [Here](http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs19/f/2007/244/c/8/Rainbow_goo_by_Jinmane.jpg) is the image i got printed. It cost me £50 (that's $100) to print which i thought was a bit much lol, but worth it i guess.
Larry 2008-03-17T07:50:00+00:00

Oh wow thats impressive,but what kind of printer would work that size a print?! I've been into fractals for ages now,would love a program for my DS or neglect mobile phone. Wonder in nintendo made one!(they have a virtual synth out for the DS!)