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 # mandelbrot
+A rendering program for the mandelbrot set wrtitten in Rust.
+This is a project for me to learn Rust.
+
+###Possible features:
+- a renderer for a mandelbrot zoom
+- rendering around a pivot point with a given window size
+- fix issue where everything breaks if the window is not square
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