Mandelnaut is the ultimate 1990s poster shop spinner, generating beautiful images of fractals with a huge array of options and settings and outputting images at custom dimensions.

Making fractal wallpapers: rendering escape-time fractals, finding beautiful views, and teaching models to judge them

There are Mandelbrots, Multibrots, Julias, and Phoenixes to explore and zoom around, 13 rendering modes, and hundreds of color schemes organized by hue and various pallette cycling knobs and dials on top. — Read the rest

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I remember waiting hours¹ for an AmigaBASIC mandlebrot set to render on my Commodore A500 in 1992 or so, its 7Mhz CPU tackling 64,000 pixels one by one until the amazing results were complete. Now I can stare at wastingmytime's fractals zooming and morphing at 60 frames per second. — Read the rest

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In the late 1980s, Dave Blair was at UC Santa Cruz making fractal art with video cameras and monitors. Decades later, he's still at it, and his work is mind-bendingly cool. He says, "This time it's an order of magnitude improvement, I finally achieved 4K. — Read the rest

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