fractalbiscuit

fractalbiscuit is a small program that gives you a little snackish taste of the Mandelbrot set, which is a beautiful never-ending picture created with a simple mathematical formula.

You can play with fractalbiscuit directly in your browser by going to the fractalbiscuit demo page.

You can explore the picture and zoom in and out by dragging with your mouse.

You can also read the source code, which is surprisingly short.

To contribute, or view the code's history, check out the git repository here: http://repo.or.cz/w/fractalbiscuit.git.

The program is written with Processing, a nice little graphics language built on Java.

TODO:

• Don't recalculate the entire screen each time you move around
• Use arbitrary-precision numbers to make very zoomed-in bits look right
• Adapt the number of iterations depending how many are needed at a location (this is why at the moment if you zoom in far enough the edges become smoothed.)