- Author: Gavin Baker
- Email: gavinb@antonym.org
- Date: August 2015
- Version: 0.5
- Web: https://github.com/gavinb/mandelrust
This application provides an interactive viewer of the Mandelbrot Set. It was written as an exercise in Rust graphics and tasks, and to explore Mandelbrot rendering.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for full details. Basically this is the simplest, most permissive license I could find.
The latest source is always available from the Github project page:
https://github.com/gavinb/mandelrust
To download, simply run:
$ git clone https://github.com/gavinb/mandelrust.git
This code was written to work with Rust 1.8 and build with contemporary
versions of 3rd party packages from crates.io.
The following libraries are required:
- glium: Glium library, for managing the OpenGL window and I/O events
- glutin: Glutin provides cross-platform OpenGL context management
This project uses Cargo, so simply running:
cargo build
should be sufficient to build and install the dependencies.
The keyboard can be used to control the app. Once the user presses a key to enter interactive mode, the set is rendered quickly at a low resolution. Once the user is happy with the displayed view, she may press Space to render the set at full resolution (which can take a while).
| Key | Function
+------------------+--------------------------------------
| Arrow Keys | Pan left/right/up/down around the set
| +/- Keys | Zoom in/out about the centre
| Space | Redraw in full resolution
I am considering using this project as a basis for a series of Rust tutorials, starting with the simplest possible renderer and building up to a full interactive GUI.
Obvious improvements include interactive mouse zoom/pan controls, palette controls, and other set functions (eg. Julia Sets).
In the meantime, If you have any patches, please send them along via Github.
:: Gavin Baker
-- Melbourne, Summer 2014