Horse Coast Approach - fractal heightfield zoom

Here is another Mandelbrot fractal zoom, presented as elevation map. So the knowledgeable commenters of the previous video got this exactly right. For the most part this is a conventional fractal zoom animation piped through a heightfield renderer.
This one is noisier than the first one. I don't really have the computational resources to produce these quickly and in high quality. I should probably spend more time re-writing and optimizing my programs.

[@adudefrompoland579]

that's a really interesting way to visualise fractals

[@Aladite]

These are the kind of landscapes I see in my dreams

[@olafkonrad7168]

Ah, this is how we got here! ☺

[@user-re4vz4cm3o]

loving it. incredible work, thanks for sharing!

[@user-mq6on3cc7x]

Me triying to find my pencil in the school:

[@VideoweltDanielHagemann]

Very Nice

[@thegrandestbazaar4800]

Very good

[@gnsmovies8849]

This are so cool to watch! How do you render these? Do you use blender?

[@procedupixel213]

The software I am using is just my own experimentation toolkit. To me, thinking about the programs and about speeding them up is part of the journey.

[@zxGHOSTr]

​@@procedupixel213 so you are using SDL2

[@rockmandashzero]

i would love a tutorial! i’d like to implement vr with spaces like these

[@Jestnarr]

When i was a child, i was thinking what would come beyond smallest, and what comes beyond biggest.
It was then i realised. Infinite has always been a circle, a cycle of infinite causality.
After the biggest, comes the smallest and before the smallest comes the biggest. Before birth, comes death and after death comes birth.
Finity originates from the limited perception of mortality, so only time creates limits.
This was when i started to ask me a question for years. The time before my birth, is it the time after my death? Unexistence. Absence. Unperceivable.
*it will never end, it has never begun*

[@Jestnarr]

Isnt that hilarious?

[@RokStembergar]

@@Jestnarr It's Hilbertarious :D

[@swancrunch]

so why's that called a horse coast?

[@procedupixel213]

Some areas of the Mandelbrot set have nicknames. One is often called seahorse (or seahorse valley for the region where those are). When viewed as an elevation map, that place seemed more like a shoreline to me. So seahorse coast, or abbreviated just horse coast.