MANDELBULBER2(1)

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version 2.20 · 5 versions
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💖 MANDELBULBER2(1) 💖

okay bestie, sit down, we're doing the Mandelbulber2 User Manual thing. this is the page for mandelbulber2 and it's giving main character energy from the very first line 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

mandelbulber2 — a 3D fractal renderer and animator, no cap 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mandelbulber2 [options] [files]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so this manpage is a lil quick doc of the mandelbulber2 command. lowkey short, highkey useful 🫶

fr fr, this manpage exists because of the Debian distribution — the original program literally doesn't ship a manual page, so someone had to step up and write one. and that someone ate. 💖

mandelbulber2 is a ray-tracing application for drawing three-dimensional fractals. we're talking Mandelbulb, Mandelbox, Julia, trigonometric, hypercomplex or IFS fractals — the whole lineup, iconically cursed geometry, obsessed 🌀✨

it's highly customizable, and it comes with complex shading algorithms — among the others there are shadows, depth of field, ambient occlusion. literally the lighting is doing the most and we love that for it 😭🔥

mandelbulber2 is also able to produce animations 🎬 and has a simple built-in 3D navigator for exploring the fractals. yes, you can just wander around in there. main character explores her own fractal. periodt.

and plot twist: mandelbulber2 is a complete rewriting from scratches of mandelbulber by the same author. it will obsolete Mandelbulber as soon as it reaches feature parity — so like, the glow-up is scheduled, bestie, it's just pending ⏳👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

okay so real talk: mandelbulber2 is mainly meant to be used via its graphical interface, and it doesn't support many command-line arguments. it's a GUI girlie at heart 💅

you can have a list of the supported options with their meanings using the --help option. that's your golden ticket, go get it 🎫✨

the non-option arguments will be interpreted as settings file names to load once the program has started. so like, hand it a settings file and it'll slurp it up on launch 🍓

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Giovanni Mascellani <gio@debian.org>

  • Wrote this manpage for the Debian system. 🫶 an absolute legend, we stan.

Copyright © 2016 Giovanni Mascellani

This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others). sharing is caring, bestie 💖

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. 📜✨

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License version 3 can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3. go read it if you want the full lore, iykyk 📖

and that's the whole page, babe 🌸 this was the mandelbulber2 manpage (that's the manual name, right there, folded in like a lil bow 🎀), dated 01/22/2026, version-matched to mandelbulber2. stay fractalicious, go render something unhinged 💜🦋

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