June 2008

Mandelmaister - Mandelbrot Fractal Viewer

My old Mandelbrot viewer coded in Java long time ago.

Supported Set

The Mandelbrot Set z_n² + c

JAR File

JAR Download: mandelmaister.jar

You can run the jar file as follows:

java -jar mandelmaister.jar

Source Code

Download: src.rar

Howto/Instructions

• Click left mouse button at two positions to define vertices of rectangle for zooming in.
• Right mouse button to return to initial view.
• increase iterations for big magnifications: Options -> Iterations.
• The rendered area casn be saved as jpeg : File->Save Image.
• Different coloring modes are available under Coloring.
• Color Wrap and initial shift (0-1) can be also set untder Coloring->Color options.
• Options->GOto allows to specify valus for cx and cy, and also check current location.

Limitations & Bugs

The zoom-in depth is limited due to the double number format precision. changing to BigDecimal would fix this issue. The y axis is flipped!

Screenshots