Hello Mandelbrot

A playground for fractal-related shenanigans. Right now, it only has a simple Python prototype that I've been using to play around with fractal generation.

Python Prototype

Located in the python-protoype directory. A Python 2 Mandelbrot set generator.

It's quite a naive approach to generating the set, but lets me play around with new ideas. It's quite slow since Python's GIL prevents efficient parallelization.

Sample output

Usage

You probably want to set up and source a Python 2.7 virtual environment before running these steps.

cd python-protoype
# (run the following with sudo if you want to use your system Python)
pip install -r requirements.txt  
python mandelbrot.py --height 500 --nmax 80

OpenCL implementation (in progress)

I'm taking my naive Python 2 implementation and reimplement it in OpenCL, which will allow me to parallelize the problem. I'll likely then start performing optimizations on this version.

Dependencies

• clang
• libpng
• png++

I'm developing on OS X 10.11, targeting my mid-2015 MacBook Pro's AMD Radeon R9 M370X GPU.