Fractals

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Windows Forms • classes • constructors • extension methods • basic trigonometry and complex numbers
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recursion • pixel manipulation • line-drawing fractals • escape-time fractal
Rod Stephens
1 week · 8-10 hours per week · INTERMEDIATE
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Take a trip into the fascinating world of fractals! Here, you’re an art director for a documentary on the 1960s psychedelic movement. Your goal is to wow your audience with a mind-bending title image—a perfect application for fractals. You’ll build programs that create fractals by drawing lines recursively, create ghostly multi-dimensional shapes, and draw escape-time fractals using the Mandelbrot set (the most popular fractal in the world).

This project is designed for learning purposes and is not a complete, production-ready application or solution.

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This liveProject is for intermediate C# programmers who are familiar with Windows Forms. To begin these liveProjects you will need to be familiar with the following:

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  • Visual Studio 2022
  • Windows operating system
TECHNIQUES
  • Create a class
  • Define constructors
  • Create a Windows Forms interface
  • Use menu and `PictureBox` controls
  • Create and use extension methods
  • Understand the basics of trigonometry
  • Understand the basics of complex numbers
  • Use `Graphics` objects to draw
  • Use the `Bitmap32` class to manipulate image pixels

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