fanim

Expressive fractal renderer. fanim relies on the Bevy engine's entity hierarchy for rendering images and videos.

If you render something cool with fanim, feel free to share it in the Bevy Discord!

Getting Started

Images

There are three components required for rendering an image:

• ImageEncoder - Renders the entity as an image to the specified path.
• Params - Populates the entity with the default parameters.
• Mandelbrot/Buddha/Bulb - The kind of fractal you want to render.

See pickover.rs and bulb.rs for examples.

use bevy_app::{App, Startup};
use bevy_ecs::prelude::*;
use fanim::prelude::*;

fn main() {
    let scale = 240;
    App::default()
        .add_plugins((
            ParamPlugin,
            EncoderPlugin,
            RenderPlugin {
                width: 16 * scale,
                height: 9 * scale,
                super_samples: 2,
            },
        ))
        .add_systems(Startup, spawn_animation)
        .set_runner(fanim::runner)
        .run();
}

fn spawn_animation(mut commands: Commands) {
    commands.spawn((
        ImageEncoder::new("out.png"),
        Params::default(),
        Mandelbrot::default(),
        View {
            x: 0.0,
            y: 0.0,
            z: 1.5,
        },
        Pickover(1.0),
        inferno(),
    ));
}

Video

There are five components required for rendering a video:

• VideoEncoder - Renders the entity as a video to the specified path with additional configuration.
• Params - Populates the entity with the default parameters.
• Mandelbrot/Buddha/Bulb - The kind of fractal you want to render.
• AnimationTarget - Tells animations! what entity to animate.
• animations! - Describes an animation. When finished, the VideoEncoder uses ffmpeg to render a video.

See bleed.rs and snow.rs for examples.

use bevy_app::{App, Startup};
use bevy_ecs::prelude::*;
use fanim::prelude::*;
use std::f32::consts::PI;

fn main() {
    let scale = 32;
    App::default()
        .add_plugins((
            ParamPlugin,
            EncoderPlugin,
            AnimationPlugin,
            RenderPlugin {
                width: 16 * scale,
                height: 9 * scale,
                // NOTE: super_samples does nothing for `Buddha`.
                super_samples: 1,
            },
        ))
        .add_systems(Startup, spawn_animation(30, 200, 8))
        .set_runner(fanim::runner)
        .run();
}

fn spawn_animation(
    fps: usize,
    buddha: u32,
    buddha_samples: u32,
) -> impl FnMut(Commands) -> bevy_ecs::error::Result {
    move |mut commands: Commands| {
        commands.spawn((
            VideoEncoder::new("out.mp4", "data", 44_100, fps)?,
            Params::default(),
            Buddha::default(),
            View {
                x: -0.25,
                y: 0.0,
                z: 2.0,
            },
            Rotation(-PI / 2.0),
            BuddhaSamples(buddha_samples),
            RgbIterations {
                r: buddha,
                g: buddha * 10,
                b: buddha * 100,
            },
            AnimationTarget::entity(),
            animations![(
                Keyframe(Julia(1.0)),
                Keyframe(CPlane { x: 1.0, y: 0.0 }),
                Duration(5.0)
            )],
        ));
        Ok(())
    }
}