A program for generating Mandelbrot fractal images
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This is a program which generates the Mandelbrot fractal set of a given width and height for a given number of iterations.
It uses Pillow, the Python Imaging Library fork to render the image and save it to a file.
Sample Usage.
To see all command line arguments, pass -h to the program.
$ mandelbrot -h usage: mandelbrot [-h] [-W WIDTH] [-H HEIGHT] [-n NITER] [-o OUTPUT]
Mandelbrot fractal generator
- optional arguments:
- -h, --help
show this help message and exit
- -W WIDTH, --width WIDTH
Width of the image
- -H HEIGHT, --height HEIGHT
Height of the image
- -n NITER, --niter NITER
Number of iterations
- -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
Name of output image file
By default, the program generates a mandelbrot fractal image of size 640x480 pixels to a file named mandelbrot.png for 1000 iterations to a file named mandelbrot.png .
$ mandelbrot Creating mandelbrot set with size 640x480, #iterations=1000
Here is an example of creating an image of size 1280x720 pixels with 5000 iterations and saving it to mandelbrot_big.png
$ mandelbrot -W 1280 -H 720 -n 5000 -o mandelbrot_big.png
The package also includes the ‘mandelbrot_mp’ program which uses PyMP to improve performance by parallel execution on multiple cores in the machine if available. The command line arguments remain the same.
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