Buddha++

A Qt-based, multi-threaded BuddhaBrot navigator

The program as a number of features:

• It's possible to set various parameters to change the characteristics of the rendered image, like the iteration depth on the 3 color channels, brightness and contrast (preview of the control window).
• The program deal particularly well with high iteration depths, thanks to a big optimization in the points calculation. I later found that this is a variation of the Brent's method.
• Saving the image and (work in progress) save and reload all the calculation parameters.
• Dinamically change the number of threads calculating the fractal and adjust the number of frames drawn every second.
• Makes use of OpenCL for the histogram -> image conversion, i.e. the color calculation (where contrast and brightness apply). It can be easily disabled at compile time.

Update (January 2014)

• I created a version that runs basically with the only dependency of Boost libraries, without a gui (branch no-gui).