Purpose

This is intended to be a sort-of kata for me. I will create multiple implementations of a simple mandlebrot generator, in order to practice programming and learn or refresh language skills.

Specification / Requirements

Manditory

To be considered correct,

1. • Given

1. The program executable $MANDLEBROT located in $PATH
2. Four ‘double precision’ floating point numbers for the real and complex range of the set, $RMIN $RMAX $IMIN $IMAX (eg -1.125 2.000 -1.8500502 1.562)
3. A positive integer $ITER representing the maximum iterations
4. $OUTFILE representing a file location where there is no current file. eg “/tmp/non-existing-file-1038561028475.raw”
   • Then

1. Following execution of this shell command $PATH\$MANDLEBROT -rmin $RMIN -rmax $RMAX -imin $IMIN -imax $IMAX -iter $ITER -out $OUTFILE
2. There is a file containing a rendering the mandlebrot set in the file specified by -out which matches a refrence rendering exactly bit for bit. (output format to be determined)

Optional

1. Accept command line arguments in any order
2. Accept optional comandline argument -g, which will display a graphics window and show the rendering in real-time (or close enough).
3. Optimization
4. Accept any of -jpeg, -png, -bmp, -tiff and output this format to the outfile instead of raw.
5. With no -out option, output to stdout
6. Accept arbitrary precision floating point range numbers and max iteration count.