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 ![screenshot image here](screenshot.png)
 
-This is a mandelbrot set viewer written for fun bc it looks weird and cool to me.
+This is a mandelbrot set viewer written for fun bc it looks weird and cool to me. It's called fractal because it's easy to change the fractal in the code, and I would like to have some sort of simple scripting language for it eventually.
 
 ## Features