{"id":8783,"date":"2014-05-06T16:34:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T20:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8783"},"modified":"2014-05-06T16:34:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T20:34:44","slug":"frax-for-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/06\/frax-for-ios\/","title":{"rendered":"Frax for iOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fract.al\">Frax<\/a> (App Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/app\/frax-iphone\">iPhone<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/app\/frax-ipad\">iPad<\/a>) from Kai Krause <a href=\"http:\/\/fract.al\/team\">et al.<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/notio\/status\/463134563578150913\">Michael Yacavone<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/fract.al\/about\">\n<p>20 years ago this team created a fractal explorer called &lsquo;Frax&rsquo; and became curious <em>&ldquo;What could we do on an iPhone today?&ldquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The reborn Frax, now orchestrating new algorithms in an intricate dance between CPU and GPU is literally&#8230; <em>400 times faster!<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Totally immersive in realtime you can now zoom into more\n  than a trillion-to-one depth range of the classic Mandelbrot set and,\n  for the first time ever, the more self-similar Julia sets can be zoomed&#8230; infinitely! <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The rendering and interactivity are striking. It also has an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/fract.al\/frax_cloud\">use<\/a> of In-App Purchase:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/fract.al\/frax_cloud\"><p>The <em>Frax Cloud<\/em> is the online counterpart of the Frax app. The cloud provides access to the <em>Frax&nbsp;Render&nbsp;Farm<\/em>, which is used to create high resolution images from your Frax presets at a much higher quality and size than is possible from within the app.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frax (App Store: iPhone, iPad) from Kai Krause et al. (via Michael Yacavone): 20 years ago this team created a fractal explorer called &lsquo;Frax&rsquo; and became curious &ldquo;What could we do on an iPhone today?&ldquo; The reborn Frax, now orchestrating new algorithms in an intricate dance between CPU and GPU is literally&#8230; 400 times faster! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[875,522,31,26],"class_list":["post-8783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-frax","tag-inapppurchase","tag-ios","tag-iosapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}