A couple of years ago I was playing around with making animations in p5.js — nothing fancy, mostly enjoying the novelty of getting pixels on screen without writing a testbench first ;). I was clearing out some old files and ran across them, so here they are: rotating squares and a Koch snowflake. Rotating squares You need a Frames Capable browser to view this content. Pretty simple – thirty squares, each inscribed in the one…
In the previous post, I introduced my idea of implementing the Mandelbrot set on an FPGA and described the Mandelbrot set equation and the Escape-time coloring algorithm. This post will talk about the implementation. Modeling the Mandelbrot set I consider it a good idea to start any FPGA implementation work with some planning, and in the case of an algorithm, the first thing you’d want to do is write a simple implementation of it…
Introduction to the Mandelbrot set Like I mentioned in the previous post, I wanted to familiarize myself with the HDMI output on the DE10-nano FPGA board, and there is no harm in getting some pretty graphics along the way, so I decided to implement a Mandelbrot set viewer on FPGA. If you are not familiar with the Mandelbrot set, it is a type of a fractal, which is simply put an infinitely – repeating recursive…
So, we have rendered frames of our BoingBall, as described in Part 1. What you want to do next is check if the animation is seamless – that is, if it loops without glitches. Best way is to convert the frames into a .gif or .avi animation (in my experience GIF works better) with your favorite photo / video editor. You will also need to reduce the number of colors of your frames, I used just…
