yay for boredom! during one of my many slashdot refreshes i came across an article about the mandelbrot set. i was intrigued by how simple the set was, and decided to make my own viewer.

i wrote the program from 9pm to 2am in one sitting, so it’s really not that high quality or special. i tried to beef it up with some extra options but didn’t really get too far. all i had time to implement was:

• zoom in by drawing a box on the screen
• variable colors
• variable precision
• undo last view change
• reset the view to the beginning
• zoom out
• realign, in case you distort while zooming

that’s it. it’s actually pretty cool what kind of patterns you can find. if you come across any that you’re proud of, take a screen shot (with the print screen key) and send them to me!

screenshots

download

Source: mandelbrotsrc.zip (8 Kb)

you won’t be able to compile the source unless you install the allegro development libraries.