shader project - glsl DE function collection

[cKleinhuis]

hi all, my shader project has undergone the first few steps, what i have so far is a include/interface include mechanism that generates include opportunities based on implemented interfaces
and a parameter edit mechanism similar to fragmentarium/synthclipse for vector and float parameters

so far so good, now i would like to build up a collection of DE functions for the classic fractals, what are the latest and most efficient glsl (webglsl) implementations for mandelbulb/mandelbox ?

 

[marius]

hi all, my shader project has undergone the first few steps, what i have so far is a include/interface include mechanism that generates include opportunities based on implemented interfaces
and a parameter edit mechanism similar to fragmentarium/synthclipse for vector and float parameters

so far so good, now i would like to build up a collection of DE functions for the classic fractals, what are the latest and most efficient glsl (webglsl) implementations for mandelbulb/mandelbox ?

 

I collected a pile of complete shaders over the years (not just DE) in https://code.google.com/p/boxplorer2/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2Fcfgs%253Fstate%253Dclosed
For instance here https://code.google.com/p/boxplorer2/source/browse/trunk/cfgs/boxplorer/fragment.glsl#49 is Rrrola's old DE for mandelbox. But that's full glsl, some minor discrepancies with webgl might exist.

This old glslsandbox one has a bunch of them nicely listed and webgl ready: http://glsl.herokuapp.com/e#1843.1

[laser blaster]

The fastest Mandelbulb DE functions avoid trig functions, but then you're stuck with a fixed power. I tried the non-trig formula found here https://github.com/niavok/glsl-factory/blob/master/shaders/mandelbulb/f.glsl, and even after a few optimizations, it was only about 20% faster than the default trig versions found in Fragmentarium. So at least for me it's not really worth losing the ability to set the power as a parameter. But maybe it would make more of a difference on older GPU's- I attached the .frag file if you want to try it yourself. Otherwise, the version included in Fragmentarium seems pretty optimal as far as trig formulas go.

[cKleinhuis]

ah, thank you people, my plan is to extract just the DE functions, equip them with user interfafe slider definitions and ready to go
quite a system i am building, dumping all the work in a huge glsl script