Fractal Maps
This project is a continuation of @Withad's honours project, found here: https://github.com/withad/Mandelbrot-Maps-on-Android
It was completed under the supervision of Professor Philip Wadler (http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/) and Professor Stephen Gilmore (http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/stg/) at the University of Edinburgh between 2014 and 2015.
Changes
Additions:
- Introduction of a menu
- Ported to Android Studio / Gradle
- Refactored pretty much everything
- Renderscript rendering (~5x faster at deeper zoom levels)
- Unit testing
License
All the work here is completed under the GNU GPL v3 license. Please see COPYING and GPL-LICENSE for details.
Credits
This work builds on that of the following people:
- Alasdair Corbett, who created the Android port of Mandelbrot Maps: https://github.com/withad/Mandelbrot-Maps-on-Android
- Edward Mallia: http://edwardmallia.com/mandelbrotmaps/
- Taige Liu
- Iain Parris, who created the original Mandelbrot Maps: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/mandelbrot-maps/mmaps.html, http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/publications/thesis/online/IM080583.pdf