Fractal Machine (blog.sciencevsmagic.net)

I guess this is a good time to plug XaoS a multiplatform real-time fractal viewer: http://wmi.math.u-szeged.hu/xaos/doku.php

Recently it was ported to iOS which is pretty cool..so it really runs on about anything: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xaos/id576120234?mt=8

I've had tons of fun with it. You can enter your own formulas as well as change coloring, do automatic rotation/color cycling for a trippy effect, and a ton more of exploration. Explore all the fractals! :-)

Strangely enough, I feel like this would be more impressive if it rendered more slowly. Does anybody else remember waiting several minutes for a fractal to render? These days, it's so easy to forget how amazing it really is.

I have also made[1] a similar thing which allows you to select colouring and enter the seeds manually, and then export the resulting picture in the resolution you want.

[1] https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5815330/burak-wk4/JSProj...

We also make some software that evaluates fractals in a statistical way using iterated function systems (IFS): http://chaoticafractals.com/

Check out the gallery here: http://chaoticafractals.com/node/114

/me sings "An other one bites the dust"

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blog.sciencevsmagic.net went down at 10:16 UTC because of HN DDOS, with only 18 points (1800 visitors estimated so far)

Beautiful.

A webGL version - even using JS to make lines, and just using gl.LINES for the plotting - would be much more responsive. For extra points though, put the rendering inside a GLSL fragment shader!

Somehow, as soon as graphics are involved, things that are essentially "hello, world!" kinds of projects routinely make it to the front page of HN. This is neat, specially for someone's 2nd programming project, but is it HN material? I think not.

Neat- I like the 'random feature'.

I wrote up a phantomjs script to generate a whole bunch of random fractal screenshots- http://garysieling.com/blog/generating-fractal-images-with-f...

Very nice!

As an aside, his blog seems to be affected by a serious amount of pingback spam. He might want to use some filtering on pingbacks.

Base-motif fractals are subsets of L-systems [1], which can be used to accurately model plant growth [2].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system

[2]: http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/#abop

Nice graphics, but this creates some problems with the back button. In IE10 the back history is transformed into an infinite list of "Fractal Machine" links (specially using animate). In Chrome pressing the back button does nothing (the icon spins, but the page never changes.)