Fractals and other graphical representations of mathematical structures have interested me as long as I remember. They are beautiful and tell strange things about the universe.
I made these Java applications originally in 2005 while I was still studying Computer Science in Helsinki University. I probably made some Java versions even before that. Before that I implemented them with C on MacOS in the nineties. Maybe with Pascal on MacOS before that. Writing these kind of applications have been a great way to learn new language or platform or library. I will probably continue writing these again in new languages in the future.
These versions I found from corner of my hard drive during some hardware update. I decided to clean and update them and push to GitHub, which is a much better storing strategy for this kind of stuff.
- on the command line in the root folder compile everything
mvn clean install
- switch to app specific folder
cd bifurcationorcd mandelbrot - run the application
mvn exec:exec