Fancy title

Thanks for having a look at this side-project of mine. It's the first thing I've made that I'm proud, and excited, to share.

Youtube playlist of demos here

If you're interested, I'm currently looking for mentors in Rust, game-dev, and writing and using shaders (or any combination of those). I can't guarantee anything in return beyond gratitude, but I love to teach and mentor, so maybe we can find something.

To me, this is a significant accomplishment. At the start, I knew:

• Relatively little Rust
• Nothing about shaders - what they are, how they are used, how they are coded, etc.
• Very little about running something outside the terminal
• How to use a game engine

I have made significant progress on all of these, and I don't plan to stop.

Installation

Build tools

This builds with rust. If you don't have rust you can find instructions here. If you don't have them already, you'll need curl and git most likely

Also need the dev-tools for the game engine. See reference if needed

Linux dev-tools

substitute apt for your platforms package manage

apt install libasound2-dev libudev-dev pkg-config

Mac and Windows dev tools

Should work out of the box.

S H A D E R P O W E R

Current shader assumes a reletively recent card/on-board graphics. See issue

Running

Assuming no curve-balls in the process, all you need to do to run this is to clone it, then cargo run in the project root directory. Any technical, TODO-list, or documentation suggestions to make this process easier for you is highly-welcomed.

For added effect

Have this audio playing in the background. I do not take any responsibility for resulting desires to join the hypno-cult.

Controls

• E to zoom in
• D to zoom out
• arrow-keys to move around
• q to quit, with the bonus of MainState struct details printed to stdout
• TAB to switch between Julia set, MandelBrot set, and hybrid.
• S to decrease detail (Increases performance)
• W to increase detail (decreases performance)

Overview

Why doesn't it do thing? That would be awesome!

Probably! feel free to add an issue, but I have another side-project that I'm working on. I'll always put aside some time to look at a pull-request, though, and help get it in if it fits the project :D

What's going on?

At time of writing, it's a real-time, shader-powered fractal renderer with exploration. It currently supports the MandelBrot set, and some related interactive fractals.

Why can I not zoom infinately? Shouldn't fractals do that?

The system currently calculates to 64-bit precision, which is not infinately precise. When things get zoomed in deep enough, the lack of infinate precision means that we eventually cannot have a value for a pixels actual location, and so we must round it out. There are ways around this, but implementing it is beyond the scope of my current interests.