One of the downsides of maintaining a blog is simply that social media is just waaaay more convenient to post to and keep up to date on. I'm on Mastodon, and so I can just put my random thoughts up there instead of here and it's easier and way more people read it anyways.
But, I will continue to update here. I just recently posted some videos of fractal zooms. I'm still getting the hang of things but once I get a better understanding of how everything works I'll start posting those more regularly. I'm particularly proud of this one since it's a classic Mandelbrot set zoom. It's the same area of the set that James Gleick demonstrated in his book about Chaos Theory that he published in the late 1980s. I'm sure it took him months to render those images using the available computing power at the time, and it was a total of six static low-resolution images that he created. The video was recorded at 30 fps for 20 seconds (a total of 600 static images) at 1080p. Total render time on my AMD Ryzen 3700 computer? 15 minutes. 20 minutes if you include the time it took to convert the static PNG files into MP4.