#!/usr/bin/env python2 # by Daniel Rosengren, modified by e-satis # https://stackoverflow.com/a/1429145/6709630 import sys, time stdout = sys.stdout BAILOUT = 16 MAX_ITERATIONS = 1000 class Iterator(object) : def __init__(self): print 'Rendering...' for y in xrange(-39, 39): stdout.write('\n') for x in xrange(-39, 39): if self.mandelbrot(x/40.0, y/40.0) : stdout.write(' ') else: stdout.write('*') def mandelbrot(self, x, y): cr = y - 0.5 ci = x zi = 0.0 zr = 0.0 for i in xrange(MAX_ITERATIONS) : temp = zr * zi zr2 = zr * zr zi2 = zi * zi zr = zr2 - zi2 + cr zi = temp + temp + ci if zi2 + zr2 > BAILOUT: return i return 0 t = time.time() Iterator() print '\nPython Elapsed %.02f' % (time.time() - t)