TheRealBanana/mandelbrotSet

Simple implementation of a Mandelbrot set visualizer written in Kotlin and GLSL

mandelbrotSet

More boredom means more coding. Decided to do what everyone and their grandma's has already done: Visualize the Mandelbrot Set.

Created some zooms through the iteration count instead of the magnification: All of them can be found here (albiet in a highly compressed form): https://imgur.com/a/a6kfIwd

Tried to remake the "deep-zoom" animation on wikipedia. Couldnt zoom the whole way without arbitrary precision however.
Animated "Deep Zoom" - 4000 iterations
Animated "Deep Zoom" - 6000 iterations
Animated "Deep Zoom" - 10000 iterations
An interesting zoom I found - 2000 iterations
A zoom into the bifurcation diagram showing its fractal nature

I forgot that adjusting the max number of iterations produces better (and slower) results at higher numbers. Here's some results @1000 iteration limit (instead of the above 50-iteration limit): More pretty pictures.... Here's a nice illustration of how sensitive the patterns are to the maximum number of iterations. Compare this screenshot at 200 iterations max to the one below at 250 iterations max. Implemented a basic color ramp in HSV space varying only the hue using the normalized velocity. Works rather well: I had no clue how to convert HSV to RGB values but found some awesome code on lolengine.net that works perfectly.

Recently added a bifurcation diagram mode (shortcut key is B). Here's a few pictures of it: The yellow box shows the area we are zooming into for the next image.