Found some c# code drawing a Mandelbrot fractal (I’am so sorry I cant remember where or who) and thought that would be fun to do in powershell. Ended up doing a little animation of the fractal. All done in ASCII. This will not work if you run it in ISE or VS Code terminal.
param(
[switch]$animate = $false
)
$buffer0 = ""
$MAXCOUNT = 30
$ui = (get-host).ui
$rui = $ui.rawui
function fractal([float] $left, [float] $top, [float] $xside, [float] $yside, [float]$zoom) {
[float]$maxx = $rui.MaxWindowSize.Width
[float]$maxy = $rui.MaxWindowSize.Height
[float]$xscale = $xside / $maxx
[float]$yscale = $yside / $maxy
for ([int]$y = 1; $y -le ($maxy - 1); $y++) {
for ([int]$x = 1; $x -le ($maxx - 1); $x++) {
[float]$cx = $x * $xscale + $left;
[float]$cy = $y * $yscale + $top;
[float]$zx = 0;
[float]$zy = 0;
[int] $count = 0;
while (($zx * $zx + $zy * $zy -lt 4) -and ($count -lt $MAXCOUNT)) {
[float]$tempx = $zx * $zx - $zy * $zy + $cx;
$zy = $zoom * $zx * $zy + $cy;
$zx = $tempx;
$count = $count + 1;
}
$t = $count + 65
$char = [char]$t
$global:buffer[$y * $maxx + $x] = $char
}
}
}
[float] $left = -1.75
[float] $top = -0.25
[float] $xside = 0.25
[float] $yside = 0.45
1..($rui.MaxWindowSize.Width * $rui.MaxWindowSize.Height) | ForEach-Object { $buffer0 += "#" }
$global:buffer = $buffer0.ToCharArray()
[float]$loop = 5.0
while ($loop -gt 1.0 ) {
fractal -left $left -top $top -xside $xside -yside $yside -zoom $loop
[console]::SetCursorPosition(0,0) ;
[string]$drawscreen = New-Object system.string($global:buffer, 0, $global:buffer.Length)
[console]::SetCursorPosition(0, 0)
Write-Host $drawscreen
# $left, $top, $xside, $yside)
$loop -= 0.05
if (-not $animate) { $loop = -100.0 }
}