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Fractal Maps
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This project is a continuation of @Withad's honours project, found here: https://github.com/withad/Mandelbrot-Maps-on-Android

It was completed under the supervision of Professor Philip Wadler (http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/) and Professor Stephen Gilmore (http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/stg/) at the University of Edinburgh between 2014 and 2015.

# Changes

Additions:
* Introduction of a menu
* Ported to Android Studio / Gradle
* Refactored pretty much everything
* Renderscript rendering (~5x faster at deeper zoom levels)
* Unit testing

# License
All the work here is completed under the GNU GPL v3 license. Please see [COPYING](COPYING) and [GPL-LICENSE](GPL-LICENSE) for details.

# Credits
This work builds on that of the following people:
* Alasdair Corbett, who created the Android port of Mandelbrot Maps: https://github.com/withad/Mandelbrot-Maps-on-Android
* Edward Mallia: http://edwardmallia.com/mandelbrotmaps/
* Taige Liu
* Iain Parris, who created the original Mandelbrot Maps: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/mandelbrot-maps/mmaps.html, http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/publications/thesis/online/IM080583.pdf