buddhabrot / backbonetutorials

As single page apps and large scale javascript applications become more prominent on the web, useful resources for those developers who are jumping the ship are crucial.

Buddhabrot generator.

Note: The above preview is being minted as an NFT by me.

Usage: buddhabrot size depth filepath [mandelbrot_factor]

Calculates a buddhabrot fractal with size {size} in pixels, with iterative depth {depth}, and outputs the resulting image files (for the mandelbrot and the buddhabrot) to {filepath}. Optionally, you can specify a factor {mandelbrot_factor}, which will multiply the iterative depth for calculating the mandelbrot fractal. This way you can have a more detailed mandelbrot to use as a basis to calculate your buddhabrot (this is advised, since mandelbrot creation is pretty cheap).

Needed for image creation are libpng and libgd (any version will do). I'll make a standalone image writer someday, or you can add your own.

Dependencies

hpalib (http://www.nongnu.org/hpalib/) Note that if you build hpalib, it should use the same XDIM settings as any cache files you're using, or the values will not de/serialize correctly.

For MacOSX, CImg will require X11. You will need to install from the XQuartz project if you're running 10.8 or later.