Psyhcedelic Mandelbrot Set
| Description How it works |
This tool uses the enhanced conditional formatting features of Excel 2007 and later to produce psychedelic images of the Mandelbrot set. Also, this tool illistrates some neat tricks to speed up macro execution. Note that this tool will not work Excel 2003 or earlier versions. Download.xlsm file (168 KB) or .zip file (41 KB) How to useMacros must be enabled for this tool to work.Key in the x and y co-ordinates of the center of the image and the span of the image in the cells D5 through D7. Then click the "Generate Image" button to get the image of the fractal. Sample imagesA couple of sample images are shown below. The center of the first is at (0,0) with a span of 4, the center of the second at (-1.625,0) and it's span is 0.05.  Also See: |