mandel

Serve images of the Mandelbrot set over HTTP.

"mandel" is a simple web application, written in Go, that renders images of the all-familiar Mandelbrot Set and serves them over HTTP.

Features:

• Zoom-in on any area of the set.
• Select palette to use when rendering the set
• Change palette without recalculating the set
• Select image size (WxH in pixels)
• Select maximum iteration count
• Color using the histogram method that produces coloring independent of the maximum iteration count setting.
• Self-contained binary with no external support files. To install to another server, just copy the binary and run it.

Example Renderings

A few pictures rendered with "mandel".

Install

In order to build the "mandel" command you need to have the package "github.com/npat-efault/bundle" and the command "github.com/npat-efault/bundle/mkbundle" installed.

First install the prerequisites:

  $ mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/npat-efault/
  $ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/npat-efault
  $ git clone https://github.com/npat-efault/bundle
  $ cd ./bundle
  $ ./all.sh install

Then install "mandel":

  $ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/npat-efault
  $ git clone https://github.com/npat-efault/mandel
  $ cd ./mandel
  $ ./all.sh install

Run

Run like this:

  $ mandel :8080

Then direct your browser to http://localhost:8080/