Fractals in C#
Three fractal generators in C#, plus an application template for making your own zoomable renderers.
I wrote these a few months back. Included in the download are zoomable renderers for Bifurcation diagrams (codebase-bifurcator), the Mandelbrot set (codebase-juliet), and Lyapunov fractals (codebase-lupine). The formulae for these were gleaned mostly from Wikipedia, and I used the same colour sets used there for visual comparison.
codebase-zoomrenderer is a blank renderer for implementing your own fractals. The interface allows image saving (BMP/JPG), parameter tweaking, and mouse selection zooming.
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Exploring Lyapunov Space
Zooming into the Mandelbrot set
Bifurcation diagram of the quadratic map
Download (76Kb Zip, binaries and full source code included)
Very good! Thanks!
Comment by li — Mar 18 2008 @ 1:45 pm
Ooh – this post’s #3 in Google for “C# Fractals” and seems to be getting a lot of views.
Let me know if you need any further details on this implementation.
Comment by Iain — Mar 22 2008 @ 1:29 am
You can speed up the mandlebrot drawing speed by replacing:-
while (iter < iterations && Math.Sqrt((x1 * x1) + (y1 * y1)) < 2)
with:-
while (iter < iterations && x1*x1+y1*y1 < 4)
Comment by Mark hemingway — Jul 29 2008 @ 7:02 pm
This is pretty sweet. I am not really familiar with the inner workings of these things so I was on a quest tonight to learn more. Is there a way to get the color transitions to be smoother, or will that just happen with larger image sizes?
Comment by Aaron — Dec 13 2008 @ 5:27 am