Tag: FRACTALS

Fractal Lab might be coolest demonstration of WebGL and JavaScript that we've ever seen here in the Download Squad bunker. If you've ever studied Mandelbrot sets -- either willingly, or for Computer Science at high school -- Fractal Lab will change your perception of iterative, recursive maths for ever. At first glance, Fractal Lab isn't immediately exciting -- in fact, when you close the ...

There is a subculture of programmers that seem to enjoy creating the most interesting or beautiful display on a computer using the least possible amount of memory. This practice has existed for a very long time, at least by computing standards. What's interesting is that the genre of programming still exists, and that things have come a very long way since the days of DOS programs. Ante Dominum ...

Fractal flames are a particularly colorful and elegant breed of fractal. We've seen them previously in the beautiful Electric Sheep screensaver, but if you're feeling artsy and mathsy today you can make your own using Apophysis. It's an open source program for Windows that does fractal flames and fractal flames only. Getting started with Apophysis isn't too tough, but MS Paint it ain't. To really ...