Mandelbulb

This is a small and simple project where I program a Mandelbulb-set renderer from scratch using both C++ and Python.

The cpp folder is the final product. The python folder was used for development, but does the same thing (just slower).

Compile the C++ code from within the cpp/srs folder (on windows):

g++ -Wall -Wextra -fopenmp .\srs\main.cpp -o program

and run it to generate data. You can then plot the generated data with a python plotting code 'plot_data' that I provide. This code relies on ffmpeg to create mp4 animations, which you can get from here: https://ffmpeg.org/download.html

This project combined some interesting topics:

• Ray marching: to find out what the camera sees.
• Signed Distance Functions: to find out how far a ray can safely march in a particular direction.
• Lots of Linear Algebra: for rotating the camera and light source.

You can read more on these topics here:

• http://blog.hvidtfeldts.net/index.php/2011/06/distance-estimated-3d-fractals-part-i/
• http://celarek.at/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/realTimeFractalsReport.pdf
• https://www.3dgep.com/understanding-the-view-matrix/