Mandelbrot(3pm)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the Mandelbrot(3pm) page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation — today's main character is Imager::Filter::Mandelbrot, and it's the filter that renders the Mandelbrot set. no cap, that's literally it. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

you pull it in like this, bestie:

use Imager;
use Imager::Filter::Mandelbrot;

$img->filter(type=>'mandelbrot', ...);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This is an expansion of the mandelbrot dynamically loadable filter provided in dynfilt in previous releases of Imager. it's giving glow-up era, fr fr. 🦋

Valid filter parameters are:

• minx — part of the range of x values to render. Defaults for the minx/maxx pair: -2.5, 1.5.
• maxx — part of the range of x values to render. Defaults for the minx/maxx pair: -2.5, 1.5.
• miny — part of the range of y values to render. Defaults for the miny/maxy pair: -1.5, 1.5.
• maxy — part of the range of y values to render. Defaults for the miny/maxy pair: -1.5, 1.5.
• maxiter — the maximum number of iterations to perform when checking if the sequence tend towards infinity.

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Original by Arnar M. Hrafnkelsson. Adapted and expanded by Tony Cook <tonyc@cpan.org>. iconic behavior, honestly. ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go peek at Imager and Imager::Filters. obsessed. 💖

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that's the page, bestie! 🎀 source/version: perl v5.42.3; date: 2026-08-19; page: Mandelbrot(3pm). mwah 💅✨