Mandelbrot Set





A beautiful render of the Mandelbrot "dragon spiral", rendered using the Orbit Trap algorithm, which creates and overlays the glowing white lines on top of the normal color mapped fractal image. Created using Fragmentarium, an IDE that makes it easy (well, easier) to explore fractal and generative systems written in GLSL shader language. See: syntopia.github.com/Fragmentarium/index.html

This is an amazing 60 Mega Pixel fractal image created with Fragmentarium, which uses the computer video card (GPU) to instantaneously render these images. This means that you can fly through the fractal space in real time and make adjustments to color and rendering detail immediately. Quite a change from the days when an image like this would have taken minutes (or even hours) to appear on the screen. Fragmentarium can be downloaded from: syntopia.github.com/Fragmentarium/index.html

Classic Mandelbrot center, rendered in UltraFractal In this algorithm (called "Magnet 1") the centers from different regions are connected by these spiral tendrils. December 2004 (Rodd3d)

Mandelbrot set in Tibetan mandala colors.