Newton Fractal visualisation

Example execution

The following Newton fractal visualises the complex roots of

$$ f(z) = z^5 - 1 $$

Benchmarks

Executed on a mid-range Intel i5-6300U (4) @ 3.000GHz mobile CPU.

f(z) = z^5 - 1
WIDTH = 2048
WIDTH = 2048
MAX_ITERATIONS = 40
Started the parallel generation via ISPC...
Generation finished in 175 ms. Writing to file newton-fractal-ispc.ppm

f(z) = z^15 - 1
WIDTH = 4096
WIDTH = 4096
MAX_ITERATIONS = 40
Started the parallel generation via ISPC...
Generation finished in 2451 ms. Writing to file newton-fractal-ispc.ppm

f(z) = z^5 - 1
WIDTH = 8192
WIDTH = 8192
MAX_ITERATIONS = 40
Started the parallel generation via ISPC...
Generation finished in 2766 ms. Writing to file newton-fractal-ispc.ppm

Usage

Usage: ./fractal.e N
    N - positive integer defining the function f(z) = z^N - 1

Build instructions

The solution has been tested on Linux with ispc compiler installed. Simply execute make in the source directory.