fractol's Introduction

WARNING: This may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.

The running executable, not this readme.

Fractol

A fractol visualization project as part of the core curriculum at 42. It uses multithreading and a custom OpenGL library to calculate and render images. The current source will compile on MacOS El Capitan, although a zip of the sources for compiling on X11 systems is included.
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Fractals included:

Julia

Mandelbrot

Mandelcube

Juliacube

Sierpinski Triangle

Bad Julia

Not a unique fractal, but an error in the base Julia set that still mutates during zoom and translation, when it normally shouldn't. I kept it in the project as a bonus because it looks hella cool.

Color Palettes included:

Features included:

Any and all of these can be adjusted live in combination with each other.

Zoom in/out on a point with mouse scroll.
Translate x and y with arrow keys.
Cycle through the current color palette with D and F. (Epilepsy Warning on this feature)
Change the color palette with A and D.
Increase and Decrease the number of iterations with left and right click.
(Julia Type Only) Live recalculate the fractol based on the mouse position.
(Julia Type Only) Freeze / Resume motion.
(Sierpinski Only) Display all steps, not just the last iteration.