Making more use of the C++ standard library?

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Hi,

I've stumbled upon Mandelbulber a few days ago and am quite impressed by the 
code. Since I'm doing quite a lot of numerical work in C++ and C and have been 
fascinated by fractals for a long time, I would like to get involved in 
mandelbulber development as much as my time permits (and if you are currently 
looking for developers, of course :)
If that sounds OK to you, my first steps would be to look through the code and 
replace C-like data structures with their C++ STL equivalents. From what I've 
seen so far, this has the potential to make the code much more compact and more 
robust against memory leaks (database.cpp/hpp would be an example; this could 
shrink to a small fraction of its size by switching to STL vectors).
For the longer term, I would also be interested in performance optimisation of 
the fractal computation itself, but I think I don't have a sufficient 
understanding of the code yet to start directly with that ;)
Would you in principle accept the kind of patches I'm proposing? And if so, 
what would be the rpreferred way of providing them? I have quite a lot of 
experience with SVN, but none at all with git, but I'd be prepared to learn...

Cheers,
  Martin

Original issue reported on code.google.com by martin.r...@gmx.de on 27 Jan 2011 at 10:07

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I attach a small patch fixing a few typos in the messages printed by 
mandelbulber.

Original comment by martin.r...@gmx.de on 31 Jan 2011 at 10:14

Attachments:

• mandelbulber_typos.patch

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Hello
I'm really sorry that I found this post so late. I don't know why I didn't 
received any notifications about new issues. If you don't mind I will use 
information from your patch in current version. Please contact me if you want 
to cooperate in developing Mandelbulber program. If you have some ideas for new 
features or optimizations I will give you uploading rights for SVN repository.

Original comment by buddhi1...@gmail.com on 12 May 2011 at 8:00

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Hi,

no problem at all :) I didn't get a notification of your response either, 
that's why it took again so long to respond...
If there is a more direct way to correspond, that would be fine for me, but 
Google abbreviates your email address, which is of course a good idea ;)
I am still very much interested in contributing to Mandelbulber; only, at the 
moment I'm quite busy with a lot of other things, so I probably could only work 
on small tweaks and maybe simplifications, nothing like the significant updates 
that you are adding all the time. If that's fine with you, I'd be happy to 
provide patches.

Cheers,
  Martin

Original comment by martin.r...@gmx.de on 30 May 2011 at 5:26

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Please contact me on email: buddhi1980@gmail.com

Original comment by buddhi1...@gmail.com on 4 Jun 2011 at 4:10

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Original comment by buddhi1...@gmail.com on 10 Nov 2013 at 7:52

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