mandelbrot

Renderings of the Mandelbrot set in various languages

cpp

Continuous, interactive.

Run in shell and use the wasd keys for movement, rf for zoom, tg for changing the number of iterations, and o to quit. Result will output to temp.bmp.

These two images were rendered at 1400x1400 and shrunk to 50% for smoothings.

nodejs

cli-mandelbrot, which is in another repo is an npmjs package for viewing and moving in the Mandelbrot set in a terminal, in ascii.

javascript + canvas

Continuous, interactive, using HTML5's canvas object. [live demo]

python

Continuous, Require PIL:

postscript

Will get your printer huffing and puffing

ruby

php

Simple ascii version:

Spreadsheet (or Excel)

Not a real language, but still noteworthy.

This Google spreadsheet generates the Mandelbrot set out of five formulae - two to define the real and imaginary values of the area, two to define the real and imaginary parts of the iteration, and one to define the escaping condition. Those formulae can be found in the five cells marked with borders. All other cells are stretched from them.