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HPC UNIVERSITY BI-WEEKLY CHALLENGE – Fractal Canvas

SUMMARY:

Your challenge is to use the HTML5 canvas element and JavaScript to create a picture of the Mandelbrot Set.

QUESTION:

An example of calculating the Mandelbrot Set in AgentSheets is provided by Shodor at http://shodor.org/talks/ncsi/agentsheets/ ("Fractal Explorer").

A sample picture for an HTML5 canvas with a width of 513 and a height of 513, assuming a step size of 0.00625 and a depth of 100, is provided in the "Fractal Canvas sample picture file" at the bottom of the challenge (linked below).

Your task is to create an HTML5/JavaScript program that produces a similar picture of the Mandelbrot Set.

SOLUTION:

Will be posted June 22, 2015.

LINK:

http://hpcuniversity.org/students/weeklyChallenge/100

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