Multi-threaded Mandelbrot Fractal.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 | # Multi-threaded Mandelbrot Fractal (Do not run using IDLE!)
# FB - 201104306
import threading
from PIL import Image
w = 512 # image width
h = 512 # image height
image = Image.new("RGB", (w, h))
wh = w * h
maxIt = 256 # max number of iterations allowed
# drawing region (xa < xb & ya < yb)
xa = -2.0
xb = 1.0
ya = -1.5
yb = 1.5
xd = xb - xa
yd = yb - ya
numThr = 5 # number of threads to run
# lock = threading.Lock()
class ManFrThread(threading.Thread):
def __init__ (self, k):
self.k = k
threading.Thread.__init__(self)
def run(self):
# each thread only calculates its own share of pixels
for i in range(k, wh, numThr):
kx = i % w
ky = int(i / w)
a = xa + xd * kx / (w - 1.0)
b = ya + yd * ky / (h - 1.0)
x = a
y = b
for kc in range(maxIt):
x0 = x * x - y * y + a
y = 2.0 * x * y + b
x = x0
if x * x + y * y > 4:
# various color palettes can be created here
red = (kc % 8) * 32
green = (16 - kc % 16) * 16
blue = (kc % 16) * 16
# lock.acquire()
global image
image.putpixel((kx, ky), (red, green, blue))
# lock.release()
break
if __name__ == "__main__":
tArr = []
for k in range(numThr): # create all threads
tArr.append(ManFrThread(k))
for k in range(numThr): # start all threads
tArr[k].start()
for k in range(numThr): # wait until all threads finished
tArr[k].join()
image.save("MandelbrotFractal.png", "PNG")
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