Re: Hardware Fractal Generator (HFG) for Mandelbrot Movie?

I guess what you need is an FPGA to make the prototype, and then go
with it to convince some hardware manufacturer so he implements the
thing in an ASIC (fpgas are not that fast). If I was you, I would just
do it in software, it's free, takes one day to implement, and you
don't have to mess one year of hardware headaches. If you are in a
hurry, just borrow some PCs, rendering speed will scale linearly with
the amount of friends you have. I'm serious, go for software. By the
way, I realized that with the amount of pixels your movie will have,
it will take around one week to the fastest disk on the market to
write the data out, whatever the rendering speed is :) :) Funny
(although you can parallelize both works of course). However I still
don't see what's the interest of going deeper and deeper, you will not
make more beautiful images like that (these horrible videos are the
proof of it: http://www.fractal-animation.net/ufvp.html, poor guy) ,
unless you want a kind of Guinness record or something.Where are you
from?
.

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