Fractal Software 
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.
XaoS for Windows | XaoS for Mac OS X | Instructions for XaoS | XaoS Open Source Project
This is the dazzling Real-Time Zoomer featured in our presentations. Explore the Mandelbrot set and 23 other fractals. Used by children everywhere, it’s even simple enough for adults. Free!
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!
Hi,
Please take a look at the Fractal Science Kit!
Windows program for exploring fractals including: Mandelbrot, Julia, Convergent, Newton, Orbit Traps, Sierpinski Triangle, IFS, Strange Attractors, Rep-N Tiles, Symmetric Icons, Apollonian Gasket, Circle Inversion, Schottky Group, Kleinian Group, L-System and many more. Hundreds of built-in equations, transformations, orbit traps, and color controllers, allow the casual user to produce stunning fractal images while providing the experienced fractal developer a rich set of illustrative examples on which to build his/her own programs.
Key Links:
Main page: http://www.fractalsciencekit.com/index.htm
Fractal Gallery: http://www.fractalsciencekit.com/gallery/gallery.htm
Fractal Tutorials: http://www.fractalsciencekit.com/tutorial/intro.htm
Fractal Examples: http://www.fractalsciencekit.com/tutorial/examples/examples.htm
Thanks,
Ross
awesome program fractals are awesome
This is awesome, though you may want to add GnoFract4d. It’s like an open-source ultrafractal (it even supports the same files), but it only runs on linux.
You forgot FRACTINT! The grand-daddy of them all!
Fractint won’t work in Windows 7. Neither will WinFrac. Almost worth keeping an old comp around to run them. I’ll miss exploring the Popcorn Julia fractal.
How about Apophysis? It’s a free program, downloadable from http://www.sourceforge.net - just do a search for Apophysis. There are classes taught online at http://visual-arts-academy.com for $25 for a 7-week course. I loved taking it, and learned a lot.
There are well over 600 fractal applications available to the general public. And only a handful of them actually will cost you money to use. The majority are Freely available, and you can find the most popular ones listed here:
http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/Fractal_Software.html
And for further information and references, try the following:
http://www.nahee.com/spanky/
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Fractoid is an open source fractal program for the Android platform. Supports pinch to zoom, mandelbrot and julia set fractals, 10 different equations, and escape-time and gaussian integer coloring algorithms. Its free and can be downloaded from the Android market.
You can run the older fractal generators in a virtual machine. All you need is an old version Windows CD that hasn’t gone to a landfill yet.
I turned to virtualization so that I could use my original formulas in Fractal Explorer (yes, you forgot another, very important and versatile one)