Other Fractal Sites
The fractal sites listed on this page will lead you to
dazzling images and mind boggling information about chaos
and fractals. Even if you didn't find my site too
entertaining, do yourself a favor and check out some of the
sites listed below!
Galleries
I already have a link to
the Infinite Fractal Loop on my gallery page, but I want
to put an extra plug in for the graphical index that was
recently added for the Infinite Fractal Loop. The
fractal gallery sites that are members of the loop are
all of high quality, and this page has a representative
thumbnail for practically every site in the loop. Takes
a while for this page to load, but it's worth it! This
is the single best starting point I know of for
exploring fractal galleries on the Web -- an
unparalleled portal to the world of fractal images.
Some of these fractals are
really spectacular. Various formulas and coloring
schemes are used. This is one of the first sites I've
seen (besides my own) where anti-aliasing is was
regularly used even on the large images. (Anti-aliasing
is common at most of the best online galleries
now.)
Gumbycat is the nom de
plume of Linda Allison. Her talent continues to grow and
amaze. She started out using Fractint, getting
incredible shading effects from Fractint's limited color
palette. Later she switched to Ultrafractal (a big
favorite among PC fractal enthusiasts.)
The Gumbycat gallery is primarily housed at the
Fractalus site. You'll find striking fractal images plus a
good link page for beginners. For those who are still
interested in Fractint there is hard-to-come-by
information, including helpful tips on choosing color maps
for fractals in Fractint. A unique site in offering how-to
tips for fractal fans. A really excellent resource for
Fractint users, but anyone who is interested in fractal
coloring techniques can learn something. Updated
frequently.
This is one
of the oldest fractal galleries on the web, with dozens
of beautiful images. Go to the fractal album, the
most recent images are at the end. Also check out the
links pages, it is really excellent, much more extensive
than this one.
See the Fractal of the Day
(generated automatically with algorithms Sprott designed
for detecting fractals that might be "esthetically
pleasing") as well as samples of practically every
interesting kind of fractal, along with links to many
more. A ton of fractal images are archived here. Good
for hours of browsing fun.
Relatively few images
compared to some of the other galleries, but the images
here are very original. Excellent color map
design!
A
commercial site containing an enormous number of
thumbnail images of fractals. There are preprocessed
images of fractals mapped as textures into digitally
generated scenes as well as many images of unprocessed
fractal images. As the title implies, this is a rich
source of classic fractal images using traditional
iteration count methods. If you've forgotten how
striking such images can be, take a look at some of
these.
Fractal Information
Frequently asked
questions list on the subject of fractal art. Excellent
source of information on fractal art and fractals in
general. If you are a neophyte in fractal matters, this
would be a good place to start learning.
One of many fractal
tutorial sites available on the Web. This one is
maintained by Glenn Elert. The tutorial material is
pretty good (you should have some mathematical
background, though) but I mainly include this site
because the "Software Resources" appendix contains the
most incredibly complete list of Mac OS chaos and
fractal programs I've ever seen! Every Mac fractal
program I've ever heard of is listed here, plus many I
haven't, and it's all organized with capsule reviews.
Very well done.
The largest list of
links to fractal software that I know of. I don't think
a totally complete list exists anywhere but if you are
looking for non-Mac fractal software you should start
here. (For Mac software the Chaos Hypertextbook link
listed above has a more complete list.)
This site used to be the
most exhaustive directory to fractal-related Internet
resources, but it doesn't seem to get updated much
anymore. It is still worth visiting for the content and
links it contains. It features libraries of images,
fractal programs for all platforms, and fractal-related
documents, and even better, a lot of links to other
sites that feature more of the same.
The one and only, the mind
boggling, indefatigable Clifford Pickover! There's a
nice selection of links to computer graphic images. Not
that many are specifically fractal, but worth looking
at, and actually this whole thing is kind of an ad for
Clifford Pickover. If you're interested in fractals or
computer graphics in general, you've probably seen or
read one of Pickover's books, and you'll probably find
this page of interest also. If you are interested in
recreational mathematics, or even just weirdness in
general, take a look at this site. Clifford Pickover
isn't just a web site anymore, he's a portal!
Other Sites of Interest
Xah Lee's page presents a
pretty good list of math-related programs (commercial,
shareware and freeware) for the Macintosh and other
systems. Anyone interested in fractals would probably be
interested in some of the other items listed here; I
discovered a few that I didn't know about myself.
