Not-So-Simple multithreaded Mandelbrot Renderer with smooth coloring in C# with WinFoms GUI.
The API spports zooming and panning, but the application itself doesn't expose this interactively (command-line paramaters are necessary). I'll incorporate that sometime into the future (possibly). In the meantime, this program is open-source so that you can change what you see by editing the configuration in Program.cs 🤣.
- ESC - Closes the display window.
- S - Saves the image displayed in the invocation directory as
Image.png.
-sor--sizefollowed by<width>,<height>as a regex matching$(\d+),(\d+)^.-ior--iterationsfollowed by<max iteration count>as a regex matching$(\d+)^.-por--palettefollowed by a path to a text file specifying a palette configuration as a text file - seepaletteConfiguration.txtin the root directory of themasterbranch for details on the format.
Defaults
-s 3840,2160 -i 256
Easy as pie to run. Download the .exe from the Releases page and double click. Enjoy the Mandelbrot!
It looks like this (a zoom with center at (0.16125, 0.637i) with a bounds of (0.001, 0.001i)):
If I hadn't mentioned it already, this is pretty fast. The image above is 1920x1080, and it was generated in about 380 ms. That's 0.38 seconds! It could provide a frame-rate of 2.5 FPS at FHD! (Now if you're doing a smaller render, it'll be proportionately faster - a 640x480 (standard fractal resolution) render of the same region takes about 75ms (that's about 12.5FPS on a video).
Now, it is possible in the API to constrain the region of the output necessary, allowing to implement reasonably efficient zooming and panning when combined with frame-interpolation, allowing realtime renders at about 20-25FPS at 640x480. However, that's not my job - it's more in line with my patron's line of work (Elliot Media SDKs). Mr. Cameron Elliot (@cameron-elliot) has graciously sponsored the development of this program from its inception. I am very grateful for his support.