danieldondorp / mandelbrotzoom

Simple python app to explore the mandelbrot set

MandelbrotZoom

Simple python app to explore the mandelbrot set

Getting started

Clone this repository by downloading and extracting the zip or by running

git clone https://github.com/DanielDondorp/MandelbrotZoom.git

Go into the directory and install the dependencies. I recommend installing into a virtual environment.

cd MandelbrotZoom
pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the program:

python Mandelbrot_Zoom_app.py

Controls:

• arrow keys for panning
• enter to zoom in
• backspace to zoom out
• page up and page down to change resolution *
• a and z to change colormap
• d to save the current view as png
• double-click on a region to zoom specifically there

* this changes how many iterations are calculated to create the image.

Notebooks

The notebooks in this repository offer implementations of this program that run in a jupyter notebook. Mandelbrot_notebook.ipynb offers control of colormaps, iterations and resolution using ipywidgets. The controls are slightly different but pretty intuitive. Zoom in and out with left and right clicks, and do the rest with widgets.