Fractal explorer in the terminal
Posted by orhunp@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 40 comments
Posted by orhunp@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 40 comments
TheTrueOrangeGuy@reddit
Windows users would never understand
AnEagleisnotme@reddit
I'm a linux users and I honestly don't really understand either
MoussaAdam@reddit
fractals are self-similar mathematical objects. a famous fractal is the Mandelbrot set, discovered by the mathematician Mandelbrot. it's fun and fascinating how complexity arises from a simple mathematical expression. OP wrote a program that visualize the set. lookup "Mandelbrot set zoom" on YouTube and have fun
bionicjoey@reddit
Technically they are objects which have fractional dimension due to how they are defined. They need not be self-similar. For example the Mandelbrot set doesn't contain images of itself if you zoom in.
MaygeKyatt@reddit
The Mandelbrot set does contain recursive mini-brots, actually! It has lots of other patterns too ofc but self-similarity is absolutely in there. (IIRC the mini-brots vary in just how similar they are. Some are identical, some are distorted.)
This Mandelbrot zoom goes through two mini-brots (the first one shows up just a few seconds in). You can also see miniature Julia sets contained in the Mandelbrot (0:23 for one example) https://youtu.be/8r7PMoThftM?si=HfzjjPighqpDKe3c
bionicjoey@reddit
That's really cool, I had no idea! Thanks for sharing.
That being said, it doesn't really change my point that fractals aren't by definition self-similar. It's just that recursion is an easy way to define many of the commonly known ones. The coastline of Norway for example is fractal yet not self-similar.
AnEagleisnotme@reddit
I know what fractals are, it's the exploring in the terminal part I don't understand
MoussaAdam@reddit
he wrote a program that visualizes fractals like the Mandelbrot set, you can run the program on your terminal, it doesn't explicitly rely on a GUI
AnEagleisnotme@reddit
*the point of
Meshuggah333@reddit
Nerd fun, and that's absolutely fine.
jon_baz@reddit
Thank you for the explanation
on_nothing_we_trust@reddit
Ever hear of winamp, it kicks the llamas ass
bionicjoey@reddit
Whips*
on_nothing_we_trust@reddit
I was recalling from 1999, in which I was doing copious amounts of hallucinogens.
djcp@reddit
Not detracting from this but check out the old school xoas if this is up your alley
Lazy_Ad_7911@reddit
Yes, xaos and fractint before it are the old school fractal explorers
Lorvintherealone@reddit
next up; Entire video games in the terminal... okay who am i kidding? of course doom is already in it...
next up: Cyberpunk with Raytracing in the terminal.
Obnomus@reddit
What is fractal explorer?
Evantaur@reddit
It explores fractals
EconomyAny5424@reddit
It fractal explorers
QuickSilver010@reddit
Fractal it explores
Sadix99@reddit
it makes you a fractalnaut
gabri3zero@reddit
"It werfs flammen" vibes
hyperswiss@reddit
Flame thrower here ? 😊
Dwedit@reddit
I remember that a single view of a fractal took over 30 minutes to generate on an Apple II.
whatyoucallmetoday@reddit
I have one running my pygamer micro controller. It’s written in Python and redraws in 10 to 20 seconds depending on how complicated the area is.
ILoveTolkiensWorks@reddit
For those unaware about fractals: they are non-integer dimensional shapes, and have infinite perimeter, but finite area.
xezo360hye@reddit
This is rust, so what else can it be except
cargo build/cargo run?ILoveTolkiensWorks@reddit
thats unfortunate. i hate running those. even the simplest program ever made pulls like a quadrillion other projects
dagbrown@reddit
There are like 4 listed in the Cargo.toml file, and 180 total when you count all of the dependencies' dependencies. I've seen Perl scripts do a lot worse, and Python can go bonkers with dependencies.
xezo360hye@reddit
Not like I have <2GB free space so…
mantarimay@reddit
here binary
rpm
source code
build on obs
other distro, just extract it. its just rust binary inside.
MakarKrapivin@reddit
It's very beautiful. I like pixel images. By the way, I saw app in Gnome Softwale, wich also creates fractals. But with GUI. It's called XaoS.
LegendNomad@reddit
The first few seconds looked like the map screen in Terraria
cornmonger_@reddit
shiney
Ok_Instruction_3789@reddit
Pretty cool stuff
shaloafy@reddit
how do I install this?
orhunp@reddit (OP)
GitHub: https://github.com/PottierLoic/Fractouille
Built with https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui using Rust
Tripleberst@reddit
Pretty cool. As a kid who had these as my screensaver, I used to wonder what it would be like to dig into other parts of the image and get to choose the direction instead of letting the computer choose.
EinSatzMitX@reddit
This is absolutely awesome!