This page contains videos of benchmarks and several other key scenes from the final build of the application.
The application was running in 1920x1080 but the Windows 10 recording software seems to have compressed the videos quite enthusiastically so the quality appears worse than it actually was.
The main Mandelbulb benchmark scene. The Mandelbulb starts at power 7.75 and increases over time. The scene uses a fixed camera path for zooming into the Mandelbulb. This scene is the most computationally complex scene that has been tested on the application. Runs for 30 seconds.
Variation of the Mandelbulb benchmark, which views the Mandelbulb from a distance using a stationary camera. This was used to test the efficiency of the bounding volume optimisation from a distance. Runs for 20 seconds.
Benchmark scene containing the Sierpinski cube and tetrahedron. Uses a fixed camera path for navigating the scene. This scene contains two moderately complex fractals which is why it should be benchmarked. Runs for 25 seconds.
Benchmark scene containing an Earth like planet. Uses a fixed camera path for zooming into the planet. This scene makes use of a C header noise function which may behave differently in OpenCL C which is why this scene should be benchmarked. Runs for 20 seconds.
Trivial benchmark scene containing just a sphere and a plane. Uses a fixed camera. This scene is as simple as possible, which is why it should be benchmarked. Runs for 30 seconds.
A basic zoom into the Mandelbrot set. The 2D Mandelbrot set is mapped onto a plane in 3D space which the camera is viewing. Only basic colouring is used.
A simple scene featuring the union of a box and sphere. The primitives are combined using smooth union and the smoothing factor is changed over time to blend between the two shapes differently.
Basic terrain including lakes and mountains with snow. This scene features bad visual artifacts which occur from differences in values returned by the noise function for similar input ranges.