# buddhi1980/mandelbulber2

Official repository for Mandelbulber v2

Repository: https://github.com/buddhi1980/mandelbulber2
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mandelbulber2
Language: C++
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2026-08-23T08:14:39+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 71/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 18, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4176, "days_push": 10, "days_rel": 332, "gap_med": 184.0, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1047, forks 131 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:22.253570+00:00)

## What it is
Mandelbulber v2 is a cross-platform desktop application for generating and rendering photorealistic three-dimensional fractals such as Mandelbulbs, Mandelboxes, and IFS sets. It offers a Qt-based GUI, multi-GPU OpenCL rendering, keyframe animation, material and texture management, and a CLI for headless rendering.

## Use cases
- render 3d fractal images
- create fractal animations with keyframes
- render mandelbox and mandelbulb scenes
- headless command-line fractal rendering
- export 3d fractal objects
- distributed network rendering of fractal videos

## When to choose
- you want to explore and render 3D fractals with photorealistic materials
- you need GPU-accelerated or multi-GPU fractal rendering
- you want keyframe animation and video output of fractal scenes
- you need headless or distributed rendering on a cluster

## When to avoid
- you need general-purpose 3D modeling or CAD tools
- you want a lightweight real-time fractal explorer in the browser
- you need 2D fractal generation only
- you require a scriptable Python API rather than a GUI/CLI application

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: graphics, simulation, gui, cli, image-processing, animation
- domain: graphics, simulation, cross-platform, developer-tools
- platform: windows, cpp, cli
- tags: fractal-rendering, raymarching, 3d-fractals, opencl, mandelbulb, keyframe-animation, distributed-rendering, linux, macos, desktop, gpu

## Member repositories
- buddhi1980/mandelbulber2 (main) score 71

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:22.253570+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:01:05.880683+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/buddhi1980/mandelbulber2 (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:22.253570+00:00, sha 63acc72ef545)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.