Mandelbrot and Julia fractal generator

Explore Mandelbrot and Julia fractals.

A button allows you to switch between Mandelbrot and Julia views. When you switch from Mandelbrot to Julia, this program renders Julia using the current cartesian coordinates of Mandelbrot.

Building

At build-time dependencies

• CMake
• Ninja (or make)

At runtime and build-time dependencies

• Libadwaita >= 1.4
• OpenGL >= 4

To install into /usr/local, run:

cmake -B build -GNinja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build build
sudo cmake --install build

CMake cache variables:

Variable name	Description	Type	Default value
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX	Installation path	String	/usr/local

Installation

Note: system installation is not supported (yet)

Copy gschemas/* to /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/ and compile them:

# cp gschemas/* /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/
# glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/

then run the program from the build directory:

cd build
./fractal-generator

Usage

Keybindings

• q, + - Zoom in
• z, - - Zoom out
• wasd, hjkl, Arrows - Translate the current fractal
• Ctrl+wasd, Ctrl+hjkl, Ctrl+Arrows - Translate Mandelbrot (even on Julia)

Mouse (on the preview)

• Left click - Zoom in
• Right click - Zoom out

License

Copyright (C) 2023 Nicola Revelant

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.