Hands-On GPU Programming with Python and CUDA

Mandelbrot revisited

Let's again look at the problem of generating the Mandelbrot set from Chapter 1, Why GPU Programming?. The original code is available under the 1 folder in the repository, with the filename mandelbrot0.py, which you should take another look at before we continue. We saw that there were two main components of this program: the first being the generation of the Mandelbrot set, and the second concerning dumping the Mandelbrot set into a PNG file. In the first chapter, we realized that we could parallelize only the generation of the Mandelbrot set, and considering that this takes the bulk of the time for the program to do, this would be a good candidate for an algorithm to offload this onto a GPU. Let's figure out how to ...