--- name: "mandelbulber2" section: "1" platform: "linux" package: "mandelbulber2-data" version: "2.20-2" release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)" platforms: ["linux"] url: "https://new.carta.tech/mandelbulber2" --- # mandelbulber2(1) 3D fractal renderer and animator ## NAME mandelbulber2 - 3D fractal renderer and animator ## SYNOPSIS **mandelbulber2** \[*options*\] \[*files*\] ## DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the **mandelbulber2** command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. **mandelbulber2** is a ray-tracing application for drawing three-dimensional fractals, like Mandelbulb, Mandelbox, Julia, trigonometric, hypercomplex or IFS fractals. It is highly customizable and features complex shading algorithms (among the others there are shadows, depth of field, ambient occlusion). **mandelbulber2** is also able to produce animations and has a simple built-in 3D navigator for exploring the fractals. **mandelbulber2** is a complete rewriting from scratches of **mandelbulber** by the same author. It will obsolete Mandelbulber as soon as it reaches feature parity. ## OPTIONS **mandelbulber2** is mainly meant to be used via its graphical interface and doesn't support many command-line arguments. You can have a list of the supported options with their meanings using the **--help** option. The non-option arguments will be interpreted as settings file names to load once the program has started. ## AUTHOR **Giovanni Mascellani** \ Wrote this manpage for the Debian system. ## COPYRIGHT Copyright © 2016 Giovanni Mascellani\ This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others). 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.