bensouchet / fractol

School Project - Graphic - Fractals Explorer

Fractol

Fractol is a program developed for my learning course at 42 school for the exploration of Fractals. Several options are available (see Keyboard shortcuts or/and Mouse controls sections for more infos) :

• Zoom and unzoom
• Change the number of iterations
• Move the current fractal
• Rotate by step of 90°
• Edit the display gradient
• Navigate between the three fractals
• Edit the shape of the fractal with the position of the mouse (only available with the fractal Julia)

Install & launch

git clone https://github.com/BenjaminSouchet/Fractol ~/Fractol
cd ~/Fractol && ./fractol Julia

You have to launch the program with a parameter. This is the name of the fractal you would like to open at the execution of the program. This parameter as to be the name of a valid fractal (Julia, Mandelbrot or Tricorn).

Example :

Open the Mandelbrot fractal ⇣

./fractol Mandelbrot

Keyboard shortcuts

Description	Key(s)
Close the program (aka quit/exit)	esc
Reset all the changes made for this map	clear
Change the display gradient (aka change color)	shift
Enable or disable the mouse controls	M  or  S
Increase the global size of the fractal (aka zoom)	+
Decrease the global size of the fractal (aka unzoom)	-
Move the fractal to the up (aka move up)	▲
Move the fractal to the down (aka move down)	▼
Move the fractal to the left (aka width move left)	◄
Move the fractal to the right (aka move right)	►
Increase the number of iterations	W
Decrease the numbre of iterations	Q
Clockwise rotation on the Z axe	T
Counter clockwise rotation on the Z axe	R
Display the Julia fractal	1
Display the Mandelbrot fractal	2
Display the Tricorn fractal	3

Mouse controls

Description	Control(s)
Increase the global size of the fractal at the position of the cursor	left button
Decrease the global size of the fractal at the position of the cursor	right button
Increase the global size of the fractal (aka zoom)	scroll up
Decrease the global size of the fractal (aka unzoom)	scroll down

Contact & contribute

If you want to contact me, or fix/improve Fractol, just send me a mail at [email protected]