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Card 505 of 10002026-08-28 issue

Observed arrival · 2026-08-28

mandelbrot.lol — A Fractal Explorer That Keeps Zooming

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Editorial interest 86/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

An interactive Mandelbrot viewer computes every frame on your GPU, with deep zoom, adjustable palettes, precision modes, and PNG export up to 32K.

Landing page captured for the 2026-08-28 issue.

Field notes

The explorer computes each frame in a WebGL2 fragment shader rather than downloading pre-rendered tiles. Its precision controls move from single and double floating-point modes to perturbation rendering, which the page describes as using a reference orbit for extreme zoom levels. Visitors can jump to named regions such as Seahorse Valley and Deep Spiral, tune palettes and anti-aliasing, copy a URL encoding the current view, or export images as large as 30720×17280 pixels.

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OpenPublic substance visible
PrettyNotable craft visible
ProPolished or operationally mature
NicheUnusually specific use
ƒJavaScriptBrowser-side code central

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