Questions tagged [fractals]
Fractals are shapes that are self-similar and are usually quite detailed. Well-known fractal sets include the Mandelbrot set, Julia sets, and Phoenix sets. Tree-like fractal drawings are also common.
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Mandelbrot Set image generator in Rust
I'm learning Rust, and as-is tradition, I'm starting out with a Mandelbrot Set explorer as my first project (although, it just produces images so far). When run, it just creates and writes an image to ...
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Plotting the Mandelbrot set efficiently
This is my Mandelbrot set program - it includes Smooth Coloring, perodicity checks, and my approach to biomorphs.
I know of Edge Detection, but I couldn't find a simple explanation that I can ...
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Improving performance of mandelbrot set calculation
I am making a hobby OS, and I thought about adding a command for interactively rendering the Mandelbrot set. The "interactive" part is not really important, but I wanted to check if the ...
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Newton Fractal writen in C
The code has no errors, it is just slow. It takes 1.19s to start.
How can I reduce runtime without using threads or multiple processes?
I have tried compiler optimization
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Creating an image of the Mandelbrot set in Rust
I'm in the process of familiarizing myself with Rust. In order to get some practice, I decided to make a program that generates images of the Mandelbrot set.
The function I use to generate the image ...
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Python fractal tree generators
I wrote the scripts several days ago, they do exactly what I intended, but the performance is not very good, I am still stuck on for loops and don't know how to vectorize things, I wrote both scripts ...
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A Python script that creates n-flakes
I have written a simple Python script that generates n-flakes using matplotlib.
Wikipedia article on N-flake.
I wrote two functions, one function generates pentaflake, the other generates hexaflake, I ...
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Multi-threaded Mandelbrot set generator slower than single thread
I am new to parallel programming. I have been playing around with multi-threading and for some reason, multi-threading the Mandelbrot set is slower than running a single thread. I have been trying to ...
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C# PRNG class based on xoshiro256**
Background
I'm creating a (probably bad) map-generation utility in C# to generate fractal terrain and similar. Nothing I do probably needs special treatment, but I thought it best to start with a good ...
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Recursion to generate fractal
I used recursion to generate fractal and got the desired result but I think my code can be better
I started using MATLAB a few days ago and since than trying and learning new things.
Now this code ...
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Interactive Mandelbrot set pictures
The purpose of this project is to generate an interactive Mandelbrot set. The user can specify the degree of magnification from the command-line and click on the produced picture to magnify the ...
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Chaos with Newton’s method
The following is the program 3.2.6. from the book Computer Science An Interdisciplinary Approach by Sedgewick & Wayne:
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Drawing dragon curves using Turtle graphics
This is exercise 3.2.23. from the book Computer Science An Interdisciplinary Approach by Sedgewick & Wayne:
Write a recursive Turtle client that draws dragon fractal.
The following is the data-...
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Generating colorful Mandelbrot and Mandelbar set wallpapers
The following is the program 3.2.6. from the book Computer Science An Interdisciplinary Approach by Sedgewick & Wayne:
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PHP Mandelbrot Set Generator
I need to get familiar with web programming, so I decided to write up a fairly simple PHP page that accepts GET requests and serves back an image of the Mandelbrot set... as a table of colored cells.
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Sierpinski Triangle in AEC
So, I've tried to extend my compiler so that it can target GNU Assembler. And I've made a simple program to demonstrate that.
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Making a fast Mandelbrot Fractal viewer
I'm making a Mandelbrot set viewer in JavaFX. It takes a while, like maybe 5 seconds to finish. Here's my code:
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A program that draws a spiral
To run this program the graphics.py module that is not in the standard library is needed and can be found here https://mcsp.wartburg.edu/zelle/python/
This amateur program is for the fun of graphics ...
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Mandelbrot rendering code in R
I'm trying out a new continuous histogram coloring method for Mandelbrot rendering in R, and since it requires three loops (three passes), each of them doubly nested, there should be a way to ...
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Sierpinski turtle triangle
I am working through Programming Fundamentals with Python on Udacity. The assignment was to create a recursive triangle. I am happy with the output, but I am hoping for feedback on the actual ...
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Rust code of a tree fractal
I just picked up Rust recently and this is my first program (longer than 10 lines at least) so I'm looking for constructs that are more native and natural to Rust. I come from a c++/ python background....
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Julia set in Julia (and other fractals)
I've made the following to draw a series of zooming in images of a fractal.
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Java Mandelbrot Set Viewer
I'm writing my own version of a Mandelbrot set generator, with pan and zoom functionality. (There's not yet a color overlay of sets generated with various beta values; the beta value is changed ...
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SIMD Mandelbrot calculation
I was messing around with GPU compute shaders the other day and created a Mandelbrot shader. Unfortunately, Metal doesn't support double-precision in compute shaders, so beyond a certain zoom level, I ...
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ASCII Mandelbrot Set "image" producer
As an exercise, I decided to try implementing a Mandelbrot Set viewer that produces ASCII images.
Small Example:
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Picking a random point along the edge of an area
I'm writing a Diffusion-limited aggregation simulation, and need to pick a random point along the edge of an area defined by a dimension pair of [width, height]. ...
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Mandelbrot Set generator
I want to reduce the big time it needed for my mandelbrot set generator to work. I'm working this for already a week.
I tried to reduce the canvas size from 400 by 400 to 200 by 200 and the speed ...
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Increase performance creating Mandelbrot set in python
I created a program in python that generates an image of the mandelbrot set. The only problem I have is that the program is quite slow, it takes about a quarter of an hour to generate the following ...
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Sierpiński's carpet fractal animation for teaching Python 3
I am teaching programming (in this case - 1 on 1 tutoring of a teenager interested in programming) and this code will be a final stage of a progression toward program generating a nice image of ...
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Generating Julia set
So, I just wanted to post something on Rosetta Code, and I found this task of generating and plotting a Julia set: http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Julia_set. There was already one solution but it was ...
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Sierpinski’s Gasket Triangle in JavaScript
I wrote the Sierpinski’s Gasket Triangle in JavaScript, but I feel the code can be better, especially from L32 to L47. Could you make it more organized?
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ASCII Mandelbrot
First of all, let me answer the question that a lot of you may have:
The Mandelbrot set is the set of values of c in the complex plane for which the orbit of 0 under iteration of the quadratic map ...
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Speeding up Buddhabrot calculation in PyCuda
I've just started using PyCuda with Python 3, but I have some experience in high performance computing on CPU. I've tried to port one of my old models for generating the Buddhabrot to run on my GPU ...
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Collatz fractal in Rust
Among the many fractals, there is Collatz Fractal based on a complex extension of:
$$f(x) = \left\{
\begin{array}{ll}
\frac{x}{2} \space \text{if even} \\
3x + 1 \space \text{if odd}
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Sierpinski triangle html canvas Implementation
I wrote my Sierpinski Triangle fractal animation using HTML canvas with JavaScript: JsFiddle
What do you think about it? How I can optimize it, if you see a need for that?
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Interactive Mandelbrot Set generator
The purpose of this project is to generate an interactive Mandelbrot Set with smooth coloring. The user can interact with the W, A, S, D keys to move around and with + and - to zoom in and out. It ...
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Solving Sierpinski Triangle in Haskell
I am a Haskell beginner with a background in C++ and Python. I have been teaching myself Haskell for about half a year on and off and recently I started doing Hackerrank problems to improve my Haskell ...
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GLSL Simplex Noise with derivatives
I recently made 2d simplex noise based coherent noise in GLSL. [Here] is the shader toy.
I wanted to make an implementation of simplex noise on the gpu in order to get better performance than the CPU ...
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Julia Fractal Drawing in C++
I'd like a code review for this program written to draw Julia fractals. I'm specifically looking for feedback on:
Style: I haven't written much C++ before, so I'm interested in knowing better or more ...
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Sierpinski Carpet using Seesaw
I decided to write a Sierpinski Carpet generator. This has been something I wanted to try since watching the Coding Train this summer. A screenshot of it in action with some experimental coloring:
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Python the Dragon's Curve with turtle
I'm kind of new to Python, and I'm trying to improve (especially) my object oriented programming, and getting to know Python syntax better.
I'd love to know if there is something to improve, (...
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Fractal renderer in WPF
This was made mostly for fun, but also to practice.
I'm generally looking for feedback on how to make the code run faster, any obvious mistakes I'm making in regards to using WPF, which I'm not at ...
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OpenGL 3 Mandelbrot Set
I've written a short program to learn about computing with drawing using OpenGL 3. To do so, I created a program to create two triangles, which form a quad, and pass all the arguments for computing ...
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Mandelbrot fractal
This is a code that outputs a .ppm file with the mandelbrot fractal.
How can I optimize this?
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Interactive Mandelbrot Set in Processing
I have created an interactive rendering of the Mandelbrot set in Processing. The image allows zooming (left and right mouse buttons) and translating (arrow keys) and prevents loss of quality by ...
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Barnsley's Fern
I recently watched the Numberphile video entitled 'Chaos Game', and in that they showed how Sierpinski's triangle could be made from random numbers. But at the end of the video, they showed how this ...
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Drawing Fractals with MS Excel VBA
I've made Excel VBA code that draws and fills a fractal pattern. I know there's a few more ways to optimize the code, just glad it works right now.
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Mandelbrot Fractal Drawer in C++
As an exercise to learn how OpenGL and image creation worked, as well as to satisfy a curiosity I've developed for Chaos Theory, I decided to create a mandelbrot fractal drawer in C++, which can ...
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Python fractal tree using SVG
I made a simple program to generate fractal tree using PATH object of SVG. Any suggestions?
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