MANDELBROT_OPENMP
Mandelbrot Image using OpenMP


MANDELBROT_OPENMP is a C program which generates an ASCII Portable Pixel Map (PPM) image of the Mandelbrot set, using OpenMP for parallel execution.

The Mandelbrot set is a set of points C in the complex plane with the property that the iteration

        z(n+1) = z(n)^2 + c
      
remains bounded.

All the points in the Mandelbrot set are known to lie within the circle of radius 2 and center at the origin.

To make a plot of the Mandelbrot set, one starts with a given point C and carries out the iteration for a fixed number of steps. If the iterates never exceed 2 in magnitude, the point C is taken to be a member of the Mandelbrot set.

Creating an image of the Mandelbrot set requires determining the behavior of many points C under the Mandelbrot mapping. But each point can be studied independently of the others, which makes this calculation suitable for a parallel implementation.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

MANDELBROT_OPENMP is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version.

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Reference:

  1. Alexander Dewdney,
    A computer microscope zooms in for a close look at the most complicated object in mathematics,
    Scientific American,
    Volume 257, Number 8, August 1985, pages 16-24.
  2. Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Hartmut Juergens, Dietmar Saupe,
    Chaos and Fractals - New Frontiers in Science,
    Springer, 1992,
    ISBN: 0-387-20229-3,
    LC: Q172.5.C45.P45.

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Last revised on 03 September 2012.