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Orbit Tracer

This program traces Mandelrot fractal orbits.
There are two modes

UI mode

With this mode you can trace orbits by clicking on the pixels within the window.
Actions:

  • Clicking (or holding down) the left mouse button draws that points orbit in red
  • Dragging with the middle mouse button moves the rendered image
>OrbitTracer.exe

CLI mode

With this mode you can render the fractal image to a PNG file

>OrbitTracer.exe -h

OrbitTracer [options] (filename / prefix)
Options:
 --help / -h                       Show this help
 -d (width) (height)               Size of image output images in pixels
 -r (resolution)                   Scale factor (Default: 200. 400 = 2x bigger)
 -o                                Output orbits instead of nebulabrot
                                    (Warning: produces one image per coordinate)