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Introduction

MRaster is a very simple C++ library for generating raster images – espeically things like fractals.

It is designed to be easy enough for beginners, but advanced enough for experts. It integrates well into existing code, uses pure C++20, requires no external dependencies, and is quite fast.

Some examples of what can be done with MRaster:

• Mandelbrot Mountains
• Newton Fractal
• Burning Ship
• Multibrot Fractals
• Mandelbrot Iteration Movie
• Tricorn Fractal
• Collatz Fractal
• Tippets Fractal
• Dancing Biomorphs
• Pickover Popcorn
• Mandelbrot Biomorph
• Inverted Mandelbrot
• Mandelbrot Wave
• Peter de Jong Fractal
• Symmetric Fractals
• Tinkerbell
• Hopalong Fractals
• Chaos Game
• Apollonian Gasket
• Attracting Torus
• Julia Sets
• Circle Art
• Some desktop backgrounds

For a bit more detail about MRaster: https://richmit.github.io/mraster/index.html

A quick start guide: https://richmit.github.io/mraster/QuickStart.html

Color schemes included in MRaster: https://richmit.github.io/mraster/ColorSchemes.html

API Documentation: https://www.mitchr.me/SS/mraster/doc-lib/autodocs/html/index.html

Example Documentation: https://www.mitchr.me/SS/mraster/doc-examples/autodocs/html/index.html

The code: https://github.com/richmit/mraster/

Versions

This library has defined “releases” intended to identify a stable snapshot of the code – they are tagged in git with a tag name starting with a “v”. If you are looking for stability, then get the latest one.

That said, I try to only commit complete, working code. So I think it’s pretty safe for most people to just pull HEAD – i.e. just do a regular git clone.

The change log has entries for each release as well as a section for what has changed on HEAD since the last release.