Fractol is a project developed as part of the cursus at 42 school. It is a program designed to render fractal shapes, including Mandelbrot and Julia set fractals, along with an H tree fractal. The program utilizes multithreading to enhance rendering performance.
Fractol allows users to explore and visualize various fractal shapes interactively. Users can navigate through the fractals, change iteration numbers, switch color palettes, and even switch to a Julia set's point. The program provides intuitive controls to manipulate and observe the fractals in real-time.
- Rendering of Mandelbrot fractal
- Rendering of Julia set fractals
- Rendering of an H tree fractal
- Multithreading support for efficient rendering (only for Mandelbrot and julia fractals)
- Interactive controls for navigation and customization (changing color palette, switching fractals)
- Left Click: Drag and drop to navigate through the fractal
- Right Click: Switch to a Julia set's point (only in Mandelbrot, right click in Julia set to go back to Mandelbrot)
- Arrows <- ->: Navigate the fractal
- +/-: Increase/Decrease iteration number
- :/! or [/] (azerty vs qwerty): Decrease/Increase number of rendering threads (optimal number is usually around the number of threads your processor dispose)
- o/p: Change color palette
- g: Switch between H-tree fractal and Julia/Mandelbrot
- t: Trigger paint mode for H tree (psychedelic effect guaranteed !!)
To compile the Fractol project, clone the repository and run the make command.
git clone <repository_url>
cd fractol
git submodule init libft
git submodule update libft
make
Once compiled, you can run the Fractol program by executing the binary file with the desired fractal shape as an argument.
./fractol [0=julia/1=mandelbrot/2=htree]
Default settings such as window resolution, printing FPS on/off,
and initial constant values for julia set are defined in includes/fractol.h
