Post #1574588
2026-03-04 06:07 UTC
@ebariaux
One of the first things I did with my Acorn Archimedes (25 MHz ARM),
was write a mandelbrot set in fixed-point assembly. We discovered some interesting visual artifacts due to bugs in the implementation 🙂
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@ebariaux@mastodon.social 2026-03-04 08:02
@axel Nice, when it comes to art, bugs are sometimes welcomed and can lead to interesting discoveries. The Archimedes was a really nice machine. Back in those days, I was playing quite a bit with Mandelbrot sets on different machines. Must have been around 1990, I had a 286 PC with a dual screen setup. One Hercules monitor would display a CLI like interface where I entered the coordinates to be drawn and see progress and one VGA display would render the set. Coded that in C IIRC.