Mandelbrot set

A simple implementation of the mandelbrot set using opengl. master 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.

• for mac: you may face difficulties running the float64 version so it's best to stick to the regular 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.cppwithNULL`.
• on windows: make sure that you run it with your best graphics card, otherwise the framerat ewill be horrible.
• 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

installation

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