Imroy / VitaBrot

Mandelbrot and Julia set explorer for PS Vita

Table of Contents VitaBrot Features Controls Todo

VitaBrot

This is a Mandelbrot and Julia set explorer for the Playstation Vita.

Features

• Multithreaded to use all four CPUs at the same time
• Up-clocks the Vita to its full 500 MHz clock speed
• Uses NEON instructions to compute two single-precision points at the same time
• Automatically switches to double-precision operations when zoomed in far enough
• Uses the default palette from XaoS

Controls

• Use d-pad to move the current window around
• Use right shoulder to zoom in, left shoulder to zoom out
• Use Square to switch to and from Julia mode
  • When switching to Julia mode, the centre of the Mandelbrot window is used as the value of 'c'
  • When switching back the Mandelbrot window is restored
• Use Circle to exit

Todo

(none of these are promises!)

• Gotta go faster!
• Zoom more like Xaos?
• Touch controls for moving and zooming
• Add menu for changing more options
  • Change palette
  • Change in/out colour mode
• Save images as PNG (or just rely on the pngshot plugin?)