edu.rit.clu.fractal

Class MandelbrotSetClu

java.lang.Object

edu.rit.clu.fractal.MandelbrotSetClu

public class MandelbrotSetClu
extends java.lang.Object

Class MandelbrotSetClu is a cluster parallel program that calculates the Mandelbrot Set. Each process in the program calculates a fixed row slice of the Mandelbrot Set image. The slices are gathered into process 0, which then writes the image to a file.

Usage: java -Dpj.np=K edu.rit.clu.fractal.MandelbrotSetClu width height xcenter ycenter resolution maxiter gamma filename
K = Number of parallel processes
width = Image width (pixels)
height = Image height (pixels)
xcenter = X coordinate of center point
ycenter = Y coordinate of center point
resolution = Pixels per unit
maxiter = Maximum number of iterations
gamma = Used to calculate pixel hues
filename = PJG image file name

The program considers a rectangular region of the complex plane centered at (xcenter,ycenter) of width pixels by height pixels, where the distance between adjacent pixels is 1/resolution. The program takes each pixel's location as a complex number c and performs the following iteration:

z₀ = 0
z_i+1 = z_i² + c

until z_i's magnitude becomes greater than or equal to 2, or i reaches a limit of maxiter. The complex numbers c where i reaches a limit of maxiter are considered to be in the Mandelbrot Set. (Actually, a number is in the Mandelbrot Set only if the iteration would continue forever without z_i becoming infinite; the foregoing is just an approximation.) The program creates an image with the pixels corresponding to the complex numbers c and the pixels' colors corresponding to the value of i achieved by the iteration. Following the traditional practice, points in the Mandelbrot set are black, and the other points are brightly colored in a range of colors depending on i. The exact hue of each pixel is (i/maxiter)^gamma. The image is stored in a Parallel Java Graphics (PJG) file specified on the command line.

The computation is performed in parallel in multiple processors. The program measures the computation's running time, including the time to write the image file.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static void	main(java.lang.String[] args) Mandelbrot Set main program.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)
                 throws java.lang.Exception

Mandelbrot Set main program.

Throws:

java.lang.Exception