Introduction
A lot of coders write their own mandelbrot calculator, or similar. It is almost like a rite of passage. I want to do the same - however I have different motivations.
Poster
I want to create an A0 poster of part of the mandelbrot space. My uni has an A0 plotter. Objective: determine the dpi of this plotter, and calculate mandelbrot to this resolution.
This is a WIP - I need to work out the DPI. Image format to write to - experimented and writing out XPMs seems trivial. Not too hard to write out partial XPMs and then sew them together if memory becomes tight (or we can get other people involved and distribute the computation).
Wouldn't mind making it a mosaic-of-sorts from the code which generates it.
Might converting between XPM and PS, or the size of the XPM, be too much of a job? Consider plotting straight to PS.