One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xerox Alto

Re:One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xe... by DaniFong on Monday June 19, 2017 @03:11PM (#14589528)

For anyone on iOS, I recommend you check out the app Frax. Created in part by the Legendary Kai Krause!

http://fract.al/

Realtime, 60 fps, incredibly beautiful fractals on iPhone and iPad. (am not affiliated with them, just a fan)

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Re:One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xe... by jw1224 on Monday June 19, 2017 @03:51PM (#14589873)

Frax is a masterpiece. It's one of those extremely rare apps that manages to effortlessly combine extreme technical competency with a creative, intuitive and inspiring user experience.

I just got a new 12.9" iPad Pro this weekend, and Frax absolutely pushes the boundaries in terms of what the iPad can do. Just the maths involved to render the light, colour, texture and movement - in real-time, at 2732x2048 resolution - blows me away.

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EDIT: I just made this[1], and a video exploration of the fractal too[2].

[1] http://i.imgur.com/s7sNYJ0.jpg

[2] https://youtu.be/35f6YbV39e8

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Re:One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xe... by sp332 on Monday June 19, 2017 @05:24PM (#14590580)

If you're not feeling so artistically inclined - or maybe just burned out on the Mandelbrot set - you can get a "flame" fractal image or video every month from a guy I know who does them professionally. https://www.patreon.com/QuinnPalmer

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Re:One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xe... by sp332 on Friday June 23, 2017 @01:11PM (#14620816)

Super late edit - it's several wallpapers per month and one video. Also you can get physical objects with the designs on them through his kinda-defunct old site http://fractal.world/

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