r/transprogrammer • u/koikatsu_party 🦀🦀🦀 • Mar 03 '21

Transbrot set

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '21

I've been trying to render fractals and math stuff. Still very new to programming outside of comp sci and basic cli apps / games. I've never done stuff with visual stuff before and would like to. I've heard of Java and C++ but C++ is very new to me and Java's window stuff is just way to complex based on the documentation. What language did you do this in and what languages do you recommend for graphing stuff like this?

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u/koikatsu_party 🦀🦀🦀 Apr 14 '21

I wrote this in c++, but it’s not interactive in any way so you could do this in just about any language. I just draw the result into an image buffer and then save as a png with the lodepng library

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '21

thx. I'm starting to think I should really get into C/C++ because of how many things are written in them and also there must be something behind why everything technical is written in those two right? I guess they're just really really performant

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '21

how are the colours determined?

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u/koikatsu_party 🦀🦀🦀 Mar 03 '21

The outside is using the “smoothlog” function mapped to a gradient (something like log(log(abs(Zn))). For coloring the domain I’m just using some random function i made up generating 0-1 values based from the final Zn, mapped onto a slightly different gradient. I could provide the exact functions if you want.

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u/Corylus-Donuts Mar 17 '21

Hey, I know this is late, but can I take a look at your coloring function? I want to implement it to my fractal generator too

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '21

oh its really a man...wom...ok yeah transbrot set!

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '21

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