Small command line program for drawing fractals, created with primary aim of learning about compiler intrinsics and secondary aim of learning a bit about fractal drawing techniques. Implemented routines use both SIMD and multithreading for maximum performance.
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Regardless of the platform make sure cmake is installed and added to your path.
For building you can use the provided script BuildProjects.sh. It will ask you to choose either 'Debug' or 'Release' configuration. The executable will be created in the build/bin directory.
The provided batchfile WIN_GenerateProjects.bat will generate a Visual Studio solution.
After running it you can open build/LofiLandscapes.sln to select configuration and build the program.
The only required argument of the program is a path to a config json file. For reference you can use the one provided with the repo:
./build/bin/CaffeinicFractalitis example.json
Additionaly you can set execution flags, specifying number of threads and simd instruction type:
./build/bin/CaffeinicFractalitis example.json -j <NUM THREADS> <SIMD FLAG>
Available simd flags are -Scalar, -SSE and -AVX