cppbrot

cppbrot is a terminal based Mandelbrot explorer. You can use the keyboard to navigate the rendering. Terminal with color support required. Uses ncurses.

What it looks like rn 🔥

Usage

Execute cmake-build-debug/cppbrot or compile yourself.
To navigate aroung use VIM key bindings:

• h Move Left
• j Move Down
• k Move Up
• l Move Right
• J Zoom Out
• K Zoom In
• + Increase Iteration Count
• - Decrease Iteration Count

If run with option --julia

• w Decrease Julia y constant
• s Increase Julia y constant
• a Decrease Julia x constant
• d Increase Julia x constant

Command Line Options

• --julia Explore Julia Set instead of Mandelbrot Set
• --auto-rotate Anmate julia set. Automatically activates the --julia option as well. No User Interaction is possible, if this option is used.
• --random-colors Sets random values for the color variables. Good if you need a refreshing look.

Further Development

For the future, I can imagine to take the output of the program cli-visualizer and use it to generate a music visualizer based on the Mandelbrot set. E.g. The levels of the different frequencies as visualized by cls-visualizer could be taken to set the colors for different iteration levels. Also the frequencies could affect the movement of a julia set.
Another Option would be to add an option named --split and have a split view that shows the mandelbrot set and its corresponding julia set at the current position.