Observed arrival · 2026-08-28
mandelbrot.lol — A Fractal Explorer That Keeps Zooming
An interactive Mandelbrot viewer computes every frame on your GPU, with deep zoom, adjustable palettes, precision modes, and PNG export up to 32K.
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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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