Experiment with Mandelbrot Fractal Generator in x86 Assembly
By
gslin
Plain bagel done well. Pleasantly substantive.
Summary
The article discusses an experiment involving writing a Mandelbrot fractal generator in x86 assembly code, inspired by a tweet. It includes interactions with Claude and attempts to run the code on a Mac using a Dockerfile.
Key quotes
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So I copied some jargon out of that response and asked: I have some code written for x86-64 assembly using NASM syntax, targeting Linux (using system calls for output). How can I run that on my Mac?
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