Fractal renderer

Current status

-- Completed --

Description

This is a single threaded application written in C. It generates below listed fractals using a graphics library Minilibx, which provides a beginner-friendly C API to interact with the X11 system. Following fractals are available:

• Mandelbrot set
• Julia set
• burning ship set

Installation

# move into necessary directory: either Linux or MacOS platform
cd linux_version
# or
cd macOS_version

Then run the following line to pull external library Minilibx repo

git submodule update --init --recursive

Finally, run make.

Usage

• Start the program by choosing the type of fractal -[m/j/b] as a parameter.

./fractol -m

• To move use W, A, S, D

• To zoom in / out use mouse wheel or arrow key up / down

• To change colors and sets, press ENTER and SPACE respectively.

• To reset image press R.

Examples

Mandelbrot set

Julia set

Burning ship