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+						 GPU FRACTAL RENDERER
+
+While I've definitely made fractal renderers before, they'd all been
+CPU-based.  Since I'm learning Vulkan right now I figured it would be
+a good time to give a GPU-based one a try.  I'm glad I did because it
+was very fun indeed.  It uses GLFW and Vulkan, so you'll need the
+development libraries for these.  You'll also need a GPU that supports
+double precision shaders.
+
+To build and run:
+
+   ./build.sh && ./gpu-frac