Mandelbrot and Julia renderers with custom bmp exporter

May 2019

I wrote both the Mandelbrot and Julia renderers in C. I played around with rendering the fractals in various color patterns, but I settled on this greyscale version because I thought it looked the best. The programs take command-line inputs for the viewport scale and position. I wrote the fractal renderers to practice as I familiarized myself with the syntax of C.

In addition to the fractal renderers I wrote a program in C that takes 24-bit color data in the form of an array pointer and saves a bitmap file without using any extra libraries. I wrote the bitmap program while I was teaching myself C as a way to practice file I/O and simple memory management.

The example julia fractal is the fractal for c = -0.65 + 0.45i.