An experimental renderer for fractals like the mandelbrot set, written in javascript.
This is currently less of a finished program and more a place for me to test new ideas, tools and rendering algorithms - but I hope some of these will allow me to turn this into an actual high-performance fractal explorer over time.
A working version of this program can be seen on peabrainiac.github.io/mandelbrotJS. If you want to run a copy of this locally instead, you can do so using any local http server (just opening index.html directly in the browser probably won't work); if you have python 3 installed, you can start one by running server.py, which will then serve all files from this folder at localhost:8080 using the build-in http.server module.
- adjustable resolution, iteration cap, and formula
- adjustable colors
- multiple formulas:
- mandelbrot set
- mandelbar set
- möbius mandelbrot set
- burning ship and other double-abs-fractals
- perpendicular burning ship and other single-abs-fractals
- buffalo and other quadruple-abs-fractals
- custom formulas
- formulas with parameters
- zoom depth of up to
2^50 - higher zoom depths
- multithreaded rendering (only works in firefox when loaded from
server.py, but should always in chrome) - multisampling
- periodic point overlay
- shows periodic points and their periods
- approximates the scale and orientation of minibrots and disks
- mandelbrot set support
- mandelbar set support
- möbius mandelbrot set support
- works on zoom depths deeper than
2^50
- adjustable viewport stretch
- automatic viewport stretch adjustment
- automatic iteration count adjustment