Mandelbrot set

A simple implementation of the mandelbrot set using opengl. float32 contains an imlementation using float32 allowing for less zoom while double contains an implementation using float64 allowing for more zoom at the cost of performance.main is a clone of double where you can record videos of zoomouts and zoomins. Press A to open a dialog in your terminal window and simply input the coordinates and zoom factor that you'd like to go to. the video can then be found in the run directory. MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE PLENTY OF STORAGE LEFT. THIS PROGRAM WILL CREATE AN IMAGE FILE FOR EACH FRAME OF VIDEO AT 24fps.

• for mac: you may face difficulties running the float64 version so it's best to stick to the float32 version.
• on linux: you may face weird bugs resulting from the fact that the application enters fullscreen mode. to fix this just replace glfwGetPrimaryMonitor() on line 50 of main.cpp with NULL.
• on windows: make sure to run it with your most powerful graphics card, otherwise you will only get still images or no images at all.
• for advanced users: you can change the fidelity and colouring of the image in shaders/mandelbrot.frag:
  • on line 56 you can change max_i to increase the nuber of iteration and thus the accuracy of the approximation which is the final image (make note that the value max_i is inversely proportional to the framerate).
  • on line 68 you can change the inputs of the HLSToRGB function to change the colouring.
  • make sure to always reconfigure the cmake project to apply your changes to the shader files

Installing

1. make sure you have cmake as well as a c++ compiler installed
2. make sure you have ffmpeg installed
3. clone your prefered branch with git clone
4. get the dependencies with git submodule init and git submodule update
5. build using cmake
6. enjoy

tl;dr:

git clone https://github.com/Sivecano/mandelbrot.git
cd mandelbrot
git submodule init
git submodule update
mkdir build 
cmake -B build 
cd build 
make # or ninja or smth. I assume you can figure it out
./sivegl