While working on a script to generate fractals in PHP I wanted to try and run the intensive calculations in parallel. The script I came up with has a fair amount of overhead in spawning and managing a thread since … Continue reading →

While working on explaning the mandlebrot set I came up with this script which reduces it down to the most simple. You will need https://github.com/natmchugh/complex_numbers or else some similar PHP implementation. You can see the output here. <?php if (‘cli’ … Continue reading →

Further to the experiments I was doing to try and create some escape time fractals using PHP and gd library I now have some code I’m prepared to share. It’s at https://github.com/natmchugh/PHP-Fractals . The Mandlebrot and Burning Ship one are … Continue reading →

I’ve been playing around with generating a couple of simple fractal sets with PHP to take me back to the early 90′s. So far the hardest part has been colour mathematics. Here are a few of examples.