Code golf: the Mandelbrot set

Posted by Stefano Borini on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Stefano Borini
Published on 2010-04-14T16:45:25Z Indexed on 2010/04/14 17:23 UTC
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Usual rules for the code golf. Here is an implementation in python as an example

from PIL import Image

im = Image.new("RGB", (300,300))
for i in xrange(300):
    print "i = ",i
    for j in xrange(300):
        x0 = float( 4.0*float(i-150)/300.0 -1.0)
        y0 = float( 4.0*float(j-150)/300.0 +0.0)
        x=0.0
        y=0.0
        iteration = 0
        max_iteration = 1000
        while (x*x + y*y <= 4.0 and iteration < max_iteration):
            xtemp = x*x - y*y + x0
            y = 2.0*x*y+y0
            x = xtemp
            iteration += 1
        if iteration == max_iteration:
            value = 255 
        else:
            value = iteration*10 % 255
        print value 
        im.putpixel( (i,j), (value, value, value))

im.save("image.png", "PNG")

The result should look like this

Mandelbrot set

Use of an image library is allowed. Alternatively, you can use ASCII art. This code does the same

for i in xrange(40):
    line = []
    for j in xrange(80):
        x0 = float( 4.0*float(i-20)/40.0 -1.0)
        y0 = float( 4.0*float(j-40)/80.0 +0.0)
        x=0.0
        y=0.0
        iteration = 0
        max_iteration = 1000
        while (x*x + y*y <= 4.0 and iteration < max_iteration):
            xtemp = x*x - y*y + x0
            y = 2.0*x*y+y0
            x = xtemp
            iteration += 1
        if iteration == max_iteration:
            line.append(" ")
        else:
            line.append("*")
    print "".join(line)

The result

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