Mandelbrot set 'rite of passage'

a cuda-accelerated mandelbrot zoom video creation tool + cpu implementation of static visualizer

Creating an output

• CPU static image:
  1. Go to cpu directory: cd static_cpu
  2. Generate data: g++ generate_set.cpp -o Generate, and ./Generate
  3. Display data: python3 display.py
• GPU dynamic video:
  1. Edit center, MAX_R, MIN_R, and length in ppm.cu
  2. Compile and generate the video: make, and ./zoom
  3. Combine output frames: ffmpeg -framerate 24 -i outfiles/tmp%03d.ppm -c:v libx264 -r 30 -pix_fmt yuv420p output_video.mp4

Design and implementation

GPU accelerated video creation tool developed using code adapted from cuda-video-project. Each thread calculates its complex coordinates given two boundary points + width and height of final image, then calculates the color of the pixel using an optimized mandelbrot set-checking method from wikipedia. Boundary points passed to the kernel are given by a function with input t (frame #), which in turn determines the level of zoom achieved with each frame.