Mamex - Marek's Mandelbrot explorer

Mandelbrot explorer is written in C# and supports arbitrary precision arithmetic that allows to zoom indefinitely. Arbitrary precision support is provided by GMP library that was compiled using standard C++ compiler and C++/CLI was used to create simple wrapper for C#. The explorer can visualize Mandelbrot and Julia sets and has many additional features such as interactive color gradient editor, projections support, and batch rendering. Custom anti-aliasing algorithm, sharpening, and color dithering algorithms yields beautiful results. Some of the results can be seen in the Gallery on this website.

Personal project, tags: C#, C++, C++/CLI, Win Forms

Basic interface, dockable windows, gradient editor on the bottom, saved areas an the right.
Interface showing Mandelbrot set (left) that generates Jualia set (middle) which is then projected using mercator-like prijection (right).
Perspective projection as an example of non-linear transformation. Linear transformations such as rotation, scale, or shear are supported as well.
Rendering interface.
Full transparency support.
Custom color picker with history and convenient ways how to select color.

Figure 1: Various images from this project.

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This project report is still under construction. If you would be interested in seeing it completed, feel free to e-mail me.

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Big poster (4 x 1.7 m) of 4 deep zooms into Mandelbrot set. I made this poster because I was amazed by Mandelbrot set and I had a program (Mandelbrot set explorer) to generate high quality images. My dad helped me to print this big guy and later I donated it to the institution where I was having programming courses after school as a kid. It is there till now. Read on ...

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Result poster.
Image detail from the poster.
Image detail from the poster.
Image detail from the poster.
Image detail from the poster.
Image detail from the poster.

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