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This might be one of the coolest things I've ever coded. I think I need more angles for the ship. But it's basically done. (Music from #DuckTales is placeholder. I just love that theme.) #playdate #gamedev #pixelart

Do the Mandelbrot set next!

I really want to make it so you can choose where to sail into the Mandelbrot set. I gotta figure out how to make sure you don't get lost in infinity where there's nothing, (vs make sure you get lost in infinity where there's everything 😉)

I had a friend at college who won a competition in the 80s to get some time on a supercomputer to plot part of the set. Unfortunately, he didn't realize that there's nothing much beyond x=1, and the first few runs just produced blank screens.

That's awesome! I wonder how this play date is going to handle the set. The resolution is only 400x240 so that's a plus, but that's still 96k points 😬 My grandfather did some Mandelbrot at work in the 80s-90s. I'm trying to get my hands on his old code but it might be lost to time 😔

Is that for emotional connection (I can understand that)? There are plenty of tutorials online on how to code a Mandelbrot set plotter. Do you only have two pixel colors? The colors of the set is normally generated from the number of iterations of the recursive equation at a given point.

Yeah it would just be cool to have his code. I'm taking a class on fractals right now, we're starting Mandelbrot this week. There's only 2 colors but there are dithering options, it'll be interesting to figure out for sure

This seems to be a very thorough and well-written tutorial, with code examples in Python: realpython.com/mandelbrot-s...

Python is one of the more readable languages. Are you using an ESP32 device? There's Micropython for them, but if you're familiar with Lua, then I'm sure translating it won't be a problem.

It's a @play.date I've got to stick to Lua or C.

Ah, it's an ARM M7. Interesting. And rather expensive, but I do like the idea behind it.