A mesmerizing psychedelic experience! Draw an almost infinite variety of beautiful Mandelbrot and Julia set fractal patterns.

Performance Notes

The image is drawn in three passes, a coarse preview pass, a finer pass, and then the final individual pixel pass. At any time you can continue zooming or panning.

Drawing times for the passes will vary based on zoom level (scale), the current location within the fractal and the Max Iterations value in Preferences. A sample (and realistic) drawing time for an 8700, for example, at the startup position but scale of 6.2557136777327755E-6 is:

9s (pass 1)
29s (pass 1-2)
1:44 (pass 1-3)

Drawing times can be faster, or slower. For example, the initial startup position draws the first pass in 4s.

· Easy to use!
· Toggle between Mandelbrot and Julia set fractals
· Adjust color settings, including
· Color curve
· Start color
· Hue direction
· Formula iterations
· Progressive image generation and display, for relatively quick previewing
· Zoom and pan
· Zoom in up to 100 times for a huge magnification factor of 3E 15
· Crosshair to pinpoint zoom location
· Show/hide crosshair
· Translucent lower panel to display the current position of the fractal
· Show/hide position panel
· Progress bar (with preference setting options)
· Email coordinates
· Keyboard shortcuts for faster navigation (these are listed in the help screen)
· Double precision calculations for fine detail at high magnifications
· Save/load favorites
· English and French language support

What's New in This Release:

· Minor update to README.
· Minor mods to make OS4.1 and 4.2 versions identical.
· OS4.2 version now compiled under JDE4.2.0 instead of JDE4.2.1.