Lightweight GTK Fractal Explorer

Explore and visualize Mandelbrot, Julia, and Newton fractals with a lightweight GTK application written in C.

Demo

Mandelbrot Fractal

Julia Fractal

Newton Fractal

Setup

• Install gcc and make.

Usage

BUILD_TYPE=release make # Compile the code in release mode (default)
BUILD_TYPE=dev make # Compile the code in development mode (includes address sanitizer and debug symbols)

make run # Run the compiled main.out

Controls

General

Keys	Description
Up, Down, Left, Right	Move the view 10% towards this direction
+/=, -	Zoom in / out the view
q	Quit the application
j	Toggle between the different fractals (Mandelbrot, Julia, Newton)
h	Reset the view, the number of iterations, and the settings of the current fractal
o	Toggle showing the overlays
i, I	Increment / Decrement the number of iterations

Julia Fractal

Keys	Description
w, a, s, d	Move $z_0$ 0.1 complex units towards this direction
Mouse Drag	Move $z_0$ using the mouse

Development

To get proper autocompletion for clangd, you need to generate a compile_commands.json file. This can be done using the bear tool.

bear -- make clean all

To format all the code, use clang-format.

clang-format -i ./**/*.{c,h}

License

This project is licensed under the GPL-3.0 License