zaiyugi / chortle

Real-time 3D fractal sphere-tracer using GLSL

Chortle: Real-time 3D fractal visualizer

Author: Zachary Shore

Project: Digital Production Arts Thesis project

Description

Chortle is a real-time visualizer for exploring 3D fractals. It uses GLSL to render 3D fractals like the Mandelbox or Pseudo-Kleinian Menger with sphere-tracing to get real-time performance. Scenes can also be exported from Chortle as a Python snippet that can be used in Cackle. Information on Cackle can be found here: Cackle

Building

• make -- make all required libraries
• make genswig -- makes the Python bindings; requires libraries to be built

Running Chortle

./python/Chortle.py will run the Chortle interface. The path to swig/_chortle.co must be in the PYTHONPATH envvar and the path to lib/libCackle.a must in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH envvar for Chortle to launch.

Directories

• glsl/
  Contains GLSL shaders used for rendering
• include/
  Contains class header files
• lib/
  Contains static library files: libCackle.a
• src/
  Contains some source files
• obj/
  Intermediate object file storage
• python/
  Render and utility scripts
• swig/
  Swig interface and Swig-generated Python bindings

Created: 2017-04-01
Edited: 2018-04-27