cmandelbrot

Mandelbrot explorer written in C with SDL2 and OpenGL. Heavily inspired by Lain69/Mandelbrot

Prerequisites

• SDL2
• An OpenGL version that supports double (OpenGL > 4.0 or ARB_gpu_shader_fp64
• GLEW

Controls

w a s d / left right up down - move left/right/up/down

- = - zoom in/out

q e - increase/decrease number of iterations before bailout

r reset position, zoom, and iterations

lshift - 5x control speed (coarse)

lalt - 0.01x control speed (fine)

x - Overlow crosshair for alignment

p - Save screenshot of current viewable area

escape - Quit

Command Line Arguments

Pairs of key-value arguments can be passed to specify starting values. e.g.: ./mandelbrot width 500 height 128 screenshotname "image"

Available Options:

• width
• height
• centerX
• centerY
• zoom
• screenshotname

Todo

• Command line arguments
  • Screen Size
  • Screenshot Name
  • Starting positions
• Save positions