Application for showing various types of fractals from Julia Sets (http://paulbourke.net/fractals/juliaset/). It uses OpenGL for the graphics, and the entire logic for the fractals is inside the fragment shaders.
In order to build the project, follow the following steps.
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Install CMake (https://cmake.org/download/)
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Clone this repository
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Initialize submodules with
git submodule update --init --recursive -
Inside the root folder, create a build folder, and inside this folder run
cmake ../ -
Compile
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Run julia_fractal.exe
It may be necessary to change the path in the getFileContent(const char* filename) function calls.
You can change the visuals with the following keyboard keys.
- RIGH / LEFT: Increases or decreases the real part of c, respectively
- UP / DOWN: Increases or decreases the imaginary part of c, respectively
- C: Changes the color scale
- EQUAL (=) / MINUS (-) : Increases or decreases the zoom
- WASD: Moves the camera up, to the left, down, or to the right, respectively
- 1, 2, 3: Changes the evaluated function