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Fractals written in Python

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Multiprocessing support

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Hello,

Phenomenal work with the fractal package!
Any plans for multiprocessing implementation?

Thanks,
coast

commented

Thank you! =)

I never thought about parallelizing this project, but it would clearly benefit from optimizations. As each pixel is independent in the generate_fractal function, a parallel "map" that builds the fractal image would be a straightforward approach for optimization. It would be great an extra parameter to control the parallelism but starting with multiprocessing.cpu_count() sounds fair. This probably isn't the best optimization approach (as, e.g., symmetries and some sort of same-valued grouping could be explored; perhaps it's possible to use specific technologies/architectures like CUDA), but it would help and doesn't seem like a toil.

I'll be waiting for a pull request.