Mandelbrot

Repository for visualising Mandelbrot and Julia sets

Features

• Customisable visualisation of Mandelbrot and Julia sets
• Zoom in and out with left/right click
• Optional MPI support (Runs much faster on multiple processes)
• Customisable zoom rate
• Jump to specified zoom level
• Customisable colour mapping
• Basic runscript provided
  • Simple interface if desired

Requirements

• Python modules may be as usual installed with pip install -r {requirements_file}
• Will run with the modules in minimal_requirements.txt
  • No change required
• To run with MPI, require
  • a working MPI implementation supporting MPI-3
    • eg. OpenMPI
  • mpi4py (included in mpi_requirements.txt)

Usage

• May be called without MPI using

python3 run.py mandelbrot

or

python3 run.py julia -c {real_c} {imag_c}.

• The c value is optional in both cases and will be randomised for the Julia set if not provided.
• If running on multiple processes, simply prepend the above with the appropriate MPI syntax
  • eg mpiexec -np {num_proc} with OpenMPI
• Customisation possible through parameters.yml