Mandelbrot Visualizer

Quick and dirty Mandelbrot set Visualizer in modernish C++ built to pass time and apply knowledge.

Used Technologies

• C++11/17/20 Features (Threads, Futures, Lambdas, ...)
• clang-format/tidy
• CMake
• GoogleTest
• Benchmark
• OpenMP
• imgui
• OpenGL
• GLFW
• Docker
• fmt
• pre-commit

Build and Execution

Docker

Run GUI with xorg:

xhost +local:docker || true
docker compose run --rm mandelbrot_visualizer
<OR>
docker compose run --rm nvidia_mandelbrot_visualizer

Natively

Dependencies

• OpenGL
• CMake 3.11+
• C++20+
• OpenMP

All other dependencies are built from source through external submodules.

See docker container for example Ubuntu/Debian install steps

Build

mkdir build -p
cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build .

Execution

export OMP_CANCELLATION=true # enable OpenMP cancellation for redrawing -> program tries to bootstrap it anyway
./mandelbrot_visualizer

Development

pre-commit install

GitHub Action enabled which runs pre-commit on main merge request.