Welcome to mdz Mandelbrot Deep Zoom open source software for Linux

What?

mdz is a Mandelbrot Set explorer and image renderer. The Mandelbrot Set is perhaps the most famous fractal.

Unlike other similar software for Linux (as far as I am aware), mdz is the only application that allows you to zoom in deeper than your hardware's native floating point support allows. MDZ uses the MPFR Library for "multiple-precision floating-point computations with correct rounding" to allow deep exploration of the M-Set beyond where ordinary precision floating-point calculations fall apart.

MDZ Features

• Uses the MPFR library to get past the native floating point precision limits of your hardware for really deep zooming.
• Multi-threaded rendering using POSIX Threads (since version 0.0.4) makes the rendering almost twice as fast compared to previous versions of mdz.
• Settings saved to file are human readable and can be edited in your favourite text editor.
• Command line options for rendering without the GUI, loading settings, specifying image size, logging location settings while zooming, etc.
• Julia set preview.
• Colour palette scaling, interpolation, manipulation, randomization, striping, load, save, and auto detection of palette files installed system-wide by other programs (gnofract4d, gfract, gkII, fractint).
• Change colour scaling and colours instantly without necessitating recalculation of fractal.
• Colour based RGB image anti-aliasing.

mdz is on Freshmeat.net where you can subscribe to receive notification when mdz is updated. Mdz is also to be seen at gnomefiles.org

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