We believe that the best way to learn about fractals is to explore them yourself! Please download the fractal software below and begin to explore the infinite realm of fractals.
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This is the dazzling Real-Time Zoomer featured in our presentations. Explore the Mandelbrot set and 23 other fractals. Open-source, free, fast, amazing. Used by children everywhere, it’s even simple enough for adults. Free!
FRAX (99 cents)
This is an app for iPhones and iPads, and it is the best touch screen fractal explorer EVER made. It’s simply wonderful! You can pinch to zoom or spin and steer by tilting. Incredible fun, and so beautiful.
FRAX Lite – a taste of FRAX
A taste of FRAX for free!
Fractal to Desktop
Live-render fractals to your desktop! Windows machines only at this time.
JWildfire
Wildfire is a free and user-friendly image-processing software, mostly known for its sophisticated flame fractal generator. It is Java-based, open-source and runs on any major computer platform. There is also a special Android-version for mobile devices. Go to the downloads page to get this free program for Windows, Linux or Mac machines.
Fractal Simulations
Create different versions of the Koch Curve and play with the Mandelbrot set and the Sierpinski Gasket.
Images are generated using a scripting language. NextFractal provides tools for exploring Fractals, browsing images, creating time-based and event-based animations, and exporting images and animations. See video for a short demonstration. NextFractal is free software, available for Mac, Windows and Linux. Download the latest release on GitHub. Trusted Mac download Ultra Fractal 6.02. Virus-free and 100% clean download. Get Ultra Fractal alternative downloads.
Fractal Landscapes
Make your own fractal landscapes
Fractal Map
If you have Windows 10 or Windows 10 mobile, download this free program to create your own fractals!
Mandelbulber | Mandelbulb3D
If you’re ready to explore 3D fractals like the Mandelbulb and Mandelbox, here are two great free programs that will open up infinite worlds. The first one may be a little more powerful and possibly a bit faster, but the second one is a little easier to use. I love them both! And they’re both Free!
Apophysis
Freeware fractal flame editor for Windows – creates super cool fractal images!
MyNameIsLawrence
Multibrot fractal explorer
Fractals Form Chance And Dimension Pdf
Fractal Fr0st
Lots of ways to play with fractals
Ultra Fractal
When you are ready for more power, Ultra Fractal is an awesome, professional package that supports animation, arbitrarily deep fractals, and extremely high resolution.
XenoDream
This is a complex and powerful 3D modeling program that makes fractals really well. A professional program, it supports animation as well as high resolution rendering.
Electric Sheep
This is an incredible evolving collaborative fractal screen saver project. Download the screensaver (for Mac, PC or linux) and let your computer help create some of the most beautiful fractal animations anywhere. Interact with it by voting on your favorite sheep, and help contribute to the fractal evolution! Free!
Videator
This incredible realtime video manipulation software allows the user to do all sorts of fun and beautiful live video effects, and best of all it is integrated with XaoS, the fractal zoomer, so you can blend yourself and your friends into the infinite fractal landscapes…
Fractal Grower
An interactive Java applet by UNM professor Joel Castellanos, that allows you to virtually grow ‘plants’ and other similar fractal shapes, by repeating a simple geometric operation. Lots of fun. Free!
Google Earth
The magnificent free program that allows you to explore anywhere on Earth. Zoom in to discover natural fractals such as mountains, rivers and coastlines. (Coming soon: custom KMZ layers showing a special collection of natural fractals on the Earth.) Free!
Amazing Seattle Programs
More fractal programs!
Fractal Domains is a shareware program that generates fractal images. With Fractal Domains you can generate color images of the most popular fractal, the Mandelbrot set, and also generate images of the associated Julia sets. You can also generate an unlimited variety of fractal types based on rational functions, including fractals based on Newton’s method and Halley’s method.
Fractal Domains has many options for producing striking variations of fractal images, and includes advanced features for producing high-quality images.
Fractal Domains features include:
Genuine Fractals For Mac
- Generation of Mandelbrot and Julia sets
- Generation of fractals based on iterating rational functions. The user may input expressions for any rational function (ratio of two polynomials).
- Editable color maps
- Preview window for Julia sets (real time update)
- Options for generating dwell values
- Escape Time
- Continuous Potential
- Angular Decomposition
- Distance Estimation
- Orbit Trap Fractals, including
- Stalks (cross- shaped orbit trap)
- Imaginary or Real Stalks
- Circular
- Square
- A multitude of options for dividing fractals into regions with distinct color maps.
- Professional features for quality image generation including:
- Full support for 24-bit color images.
- Image rendering with anti-aliasing.
- Spooling large images to disk (allows the generation of images too large to fit into available RAM).
- Export images in PICT, PNG, TIFF or JPEG format.
- Divide image into tiles under the user’s control.
- Tiles allow parts of the image to be generated on separate computers, allowing several processors to be used simultaneously to generate an image.
- Tiles allow the creation of images larger than the largest format that your rendering hardware allows. Very large images can be tiled, each tile printed and the resulting tile fit together to form the original image.
I hope that both newcomers and experienced users of Fractal Domains (and its predecessor, FracPPC) will take the time to explore this site. Start with the Info page which has a map to the major sources of information on the site (tutorials, version history, general information, etc.), or go to the Gallery to see examples of the images Fractal Domains is capable of producing.