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Currently this code does quaternion julias, but within a few hours it could do Mandelbulbs. It's the second posting on the page. It's all about replacing the DE method with the proper Mandelbulb formula.

http://users.skynet.be/fquake/

Anyone interested in compute shaders, having DirectX 11 class hardware might have a go at this.
Or anyone familiar with Pixel Shader 4.0 and DirectX 10.

The code comes with full source code. Enjoy The minimum requirement is Windows Vista (because of DX10 requirement). You would need a Visual C++ 2005 or 2008 Express edition (free download from MS!), the latest Windows SDK (for DirectX 11) and some spare time.

Christian

Not my program. I just found it by accident, searching for some GPU related software.

You are lacking DirectX11 apparently, which was included in a Windows Vista platform update released a couple of weeks ago. I think Windows Update shows this one as an optional update - so you may have missed out on it so far. Another requirement here is Vista Service Pack 2, otherwise this platform update won't be available.

I got this program to run after I updated my Vista SP1 to SP2 today (the lack of DX11 in my Vista was the final straw)

If the program still doesn't run after installing DX11, it could be your GPU just isn't up to it yet.

Don't be discouraged by the GPU stuff. If you can program in C/C++, you would be able to modify the shader to suit your needs. All the DirectX and platform specific things are already taken care of - well OK potentially you need to set up a development environment in which to compile the C++ code if you want to do a bit more than just modifying the HLSL shader code (which conveniently is just an ASCII text file situated in the program folder).

Christian