YAFT (Yet Another Fractal Tool) is a command-line program that renders a portion of the Mandelbrot Set to a PNG file.
YAFT is written in C++ and makes use of C++11 features, mainly its threading support.
YAFT uses GMP to render the fractal with arbitrary precision. It specifically uses the C++ class interfaces in GMP.
YAFT uses png++, which is a C++ wrapper for libpng, to render the fractal image output to a PNG file.
YAFT uses an escape time algorithm to render the Mandelbrot fractal. Each thread renders chunks/sections of 2048 pixels.
YAFT takes in rendering parameters through command line arguments. Running YAFT without any arguments will print out usage instructions:
Usage: ./yaft xmin xmax ymin ymax width height outfile
- xmin: the left boundary of the render window
- xmax: the right boundary of the render window
- ymin: the bottom boundary of the render window
- ymax: the top boundary of the render window
- width: the width of the rendered image in pixels
- height: the height of the rendered image in pixels
- outfile: the file path/name to save the rendered image to
Examples can be seen in the test.sh and bigtest.sh files.
Example: ./yaft -1.5 0.5 -1 1 256 256 test.png will render the fractal in a
window with corners (-1.5, -1) to (0.5, 1) and output it to a 256x256 image
named test.png.
On Debian/Ubuntu systems, you will need to install the libgmp-dev and the
libpng++-dev packages to build this package.
yaft is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE.txt.