Mandelbrot is a small fractal explorer written in C with MiniLibX. It opens a window that renders the Mandelbrot set and lets you zoom, pan, and inspect the image in real time.
- Zoom in and out with the mouse wheel
- Shift the view with the arrow keys
- Build and run the project locally on Linux
Install the development packages required by MiniLibX:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y gcc make libx11-dev libxext-dev libbsd-dev zlib1g-devcd minilibx-linux
./configure
cd ..
make
./fractol mandelbrotThe full documentation is available at:
It includes a getting-started tutorial, setup and troubleshooting how-to guides, and reference documentation for the current CLI behavior.

