Mandelbrot

Serial and Parallelized Mandelbrot image generator for CSI4650.

Developing

Prerequisites

This project is easiest to set up on Linux, and has what we have been using for development. Here is the software you will need:

• C Compiler

  • Linux - Already installed 😎
  • Windows (Cygwin or w64devkit)
  • Mac - Install Homebrew, then do brew install gcc

• CMake - Build tool for C/C++

• Conan - Package manager for C/C++

  • Installing Conan requires pip

Conan

Run the command correctly to ensure that Conan has detected your OS/hardware correctly:

conan profile detect --force

To install our dependencies, run:

conan install . --build=missing

CMake

Make sure you are in the build level directory (foo/bar/Mandelbrot/build). To configure the CMake project, run

cmake . -S../src -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=./Release/generators/conan_toolchain.cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release

To build your changes, run:

cmake --build .

To run the build, run:

./Mandelbrot [ARGS]

Option	Description
-h, --help	Show this help message and exit
--iterations, -i INT	Number of iterations to calculate velocity (default: 1000)
--resolution, -r INT	Resolution of the image in pixels of the larger side, with the smaller side being scaled appropriately (default: 1000)
--zoom_point_real DOUBLE	Real point to zoom in on (default: 0)
--zoom_point_imaginary DOUBLE	Imaginary point to zoom in on (default: 0)
--real_bound DOUBLE	Real bound of the zoom += zoom_point_real (default: 2)
--imaginary_bound DOUBLE	Imaginary bound of the zoom += zoom_point_imaginary (default: 2)
--threads, -t	Number of threads to use (default: 1)

Really Cool Point to Zoom On (Misiurewicz Point)

./Mandelbrot -t 24 --zoom_point_real=-0.77568 --zoom_point_imaginary=0.13646 --real_bound=.01 --imaginary_bound=.01