Mandelbrot Set Explorer

An interactive WebAssembly-powered Mandelbrot set explorer built with Rust and WebGPU.

Features

• Real-time Mandelbrot set rendering using WebGPU compute shaders
• Interactive zoom and pan with mouse wheel and keyboard controls
• High-performance WebAssembly backend
• Responsive design that works on any screen size

Controls

• Mouse wheel: Zoom in/out at cursor position
• Arrow keys: Pan around the fractal
• +/-: Zoom in/out at center
• R: Reset to initial view
• Z: Auto-zoom

Live Demo

Visit https://nyberg.dev/mandelbrot-wasm/ to try it out!

Development

Prerequisites

• Rust with wasm32-unknown-unknown target
• wasm-pack

Building

wasm-pack build --target web --release

Running locally

Serve the files with any static file server:

python -m http.server 8000

Deployment

This project automatically deploys to GitHub Pages via GitHub Actions when changes are pushed to the main branch.