From 298b09ddc95abbe3eae4f02e43355635f7537be3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ond=C5=99ej=20Hru=C5=A1ka?= <ondra@ondrovo.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:59:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add generated mandelbrot demo

---
 lua/demo/mandelbrot.lua | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 124 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 lua/demo/mandelbrot.lua

diff --git a/lua/demo/mandelbrot.lua b/lua/demo/mandelbrot.lua
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5ffd518
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lua/demo/mandelbrot.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+-- The Mandelbrot set rendered as colored ASCII art, drawn row by row with
+-- the tui positioning tools (alternate screen, moveTo, clearScreen), then a
+-- short animated zoom into "seahorse valley". When output is piped, it
+-- degrades to a single plain-text render.
+--
+-- Run with:  cargo run -- lua/demo/mandelbrot.lua
+
+-- One character + color per escape-speed bucket, slowest to fastest.
+local CHARS = { ".", ":", "-", "=", "+", "*", "#", "%", "@" }
+local COLORS = {
+    "#1e3a8a", "#1d4ed8", "#0284c7", "#0d9488", "#16a34a",
+    "#84cc16", "#eab308", "#f97316", "#ef4444",
+}
+
+--- How many iterations until the point escapes, or nil if it stays bounded
+--- (i.e. belongs to the set).
+local function escapeTime(cx, cy, maxIter)
+    local x, y = 0, 0
+    for i = 1, maxIter do
+        local x2, y2 = x * x, y * y
+        if x2 + y2 > 4 then
+            return i
+        end
+        y = 2 * x * y + cy
+        x = x2 - y2 + cx
+    end
+    return nil
+end
+
+--- Render one row as a styled string, batching same-colored runs into a
+--- single tag so the escape-code overhead stays small.
+local function renderRow(cy, xMin, dx, cols, maxIter)
+    local parts, run, runColor = {}, {}, nil
+    local function flush()
+        if #run == 0 then
+            return
+        end
+        local text = table.concat(run)
+        parts[#parts + 1] = runColor and ("<%s>%s</>"):format(runColor, text) or text
+        run = {}
+    end
+    for col = 0, cols - 1 do
+        local i = escapeTime(xMin + col * dx, cy, maxIter)
+        local ch, color = " ", nil -- inside the set: leave the cell empty
+        if i then
+            local idx = math.clamp(math.floor(math.sqrt(i / maxIter) * #CHARS) + 1, 1, #CHARS)
+            ch, color = CHARS[idx], COLORS[idx]
+        end
+        if color ~= runColor then
+            flush()
+            runColor = color
+        end
+        run[#run + 1] = ch
+    end
+    flush()
+    return tui.styled(table.concat(parts))
+end
+
+--- Draw one full frame. Interactively each row is placed with tui.moveTo
+--- (row 1 is a header line); piped, rows are just printed in order.
+local function drawFrame(cx, cy, scale, maxIter, cols, rows, interactive)
+    -- Terminal cells are roughly twice as tall as they are wide, so step
+    -- twice as far in y to keep the set round.
+    local dx = scale / cols
+    local dy = dx * 2
+    local xMin = cx - dx * cols / 2
+    local yMin = cy - dy * rows / 2
+
+    if interactive then
+        tui.moveTo(1, 1)
+        tui.raw(tui.styled(
+            ("<clear=line><b>Mandelbrot</b>  center %.9f%+.9fi  width %.2e  max iter %d")
+                :format(cx, cy, scale, maxIter)
+        ))
+    end
+    for row = 1, rows do
+        local line = renderRow(yMin + (row - 1) * dy, xMin, dx, cols, maxIter)
+        if interactive then
+            tui.moveTo(row + 1, 1)
+            tui.raw(line)
+        else
+            print(line)
+        end
+    end
+end
+
+tui.setTitle("mandelbrot")
+
+local info = tui.screenInfo()
+local cols = info.width or 100
+local rows = (info.height or 32) - 2 -- header + one spare line for the cursor
+
+-- The classic full view: x roughly [-2.1, 1.1].
+local fullCx, fullCy, fullScale = -0.5, 0, 3.2
+
+if not info.tty then
+    drawFrame(fullCx, fullCy, fullScale, 80, cols, rows, false)
+    return
+end
+
+tui.altScreen(true)
+tui.clearScreen()
+tui.showCursor(false)
+
+drawFrame(fullCx, fullCy, fullScale, 80, cols, rows, true)
+os.sleep(2)
+
+-- Zoom into "seahorse valley" between the main cardioid and the period-2
+-- bulb, cranking up the iteration budget as detail gets finer.
+local cx, cy = -0.743643887, 0.131825904
+local scale = fullScale
+for frame = 1, 40 do
+    scale = scale * 0.85
+    drawFrame(cx, cy, scale, 60 + frame * 8, cols, rows, true)
+    os.sleep(0.03)
+end
+os.sleep(2)
+
+tui.altScreen(false)
+tui.showCursor(true)
+tui.success(("zoomed to a window %.2e units wide — that's about %dx magnification"):format(
+    scale,
+    math.round(fullScale / scale)
+))