On: Generating the Mandelbrot Set

[eb0la]

Take a look at Fractint (fractint.org) and all kind of fractals it can generate.

I became obsessed with IFS (iterated function systems) a looooong time ago. Take a look at the colage theorem and try to make your own ;-)

Cheers

[trollied → eb0la]

Oh, me too. I was obsessed with Fractint when I was a teenager - It's what got me into coding. Wrote some Pascal that morphed one IFS pattern into another & was soooo pleased with myself :-)

Some modern fractal things that I appreciate:

Example IFS generator: http://sirxemic.github.io/ifs-animator/ Mandelbulb 3D (amazing): http://www.mandelbulb.com

If anyone wants to start with something simple, try and write a Sierpinski Gasket generator. Very very simple, yet infinitely complicated.

[ghaff → trollied]

Fractint was one of a number of programs that were very popular for a period because they really showed off graphics cards that, for the first time on consumer hardware, could display reasonably high resolution graphics (EGA then VGA).

[Twirrim → eb0la]

There's some fun to be had with the Java based jwildfire these days, http://www.jwildfire.org/, although arguably it's a bit more focussed on making things pretty.

[JadeNB → eb0la]

I thought for a moment you were referring to FRACTRAN (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRACTRAN), which is a whole different kind of interesting.

[manifestsilence → eb0la]

Playing with Fractint and reading Chaos shaped my world view more than most things in my youth. It formed the basis for what passes for spirituality in me.