Fractals on the Web
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| In the first versions of these pages the list of sites was much more limited and I gave, for most of them, an appraising on the images shown. The list being larger, it is difficult not to repeat again the same terms (beautiful, spectacular...). Moreover unavoidable differences in these texts may appear unfair for some sites. All those cited here are, in my opinion, great quality ones, but I am fully aware that this list is far from being complete. Therefore I have come to the decision to limit the text, when it was necessary, to a few technical information. The authors of many other sites offer a quite shorter list of links to a few pages they judge to be the best. It is another choice which is complementary to mine. | |||
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The alt.binaries.pictures.fractals news group. | ||
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Yahoo! Groups fractal-world | ||
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Infinite Fractal Loop. I can't list all the good sites. The Infinite Fractal Loop is the best source for sites devoted to fractal art. | ||
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Frank Roussel's fractal Archive. Animations of fractals and pictures from various artists. One of the first great site. Megabytes of images. | ||
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MOCA : the Museum of Computer Art. Shows images of several very well-known creators. | ||
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Gumbycat's Cyberhome. Linda Allison's fractals. | ||
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Fractint lessons. Brillant lesson about the art of creating colours palettes and using Fractint. | ||
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Paul Carlson's fractals. Paul Carlson has created several original algorithm which have brought great new features in fractal imagery. | ||
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Kerry Mitchell's fractals. | ||
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The recursive Art of Rollo Silver. | ||
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Fractalus Home. Personal pages of Damien N. Jones and several other creators. | ||
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Fractal pictures. Damien N. Jones (older images). | ||
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Don Archer's Fractal Art. Fractal images and music. | ||
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Fractopia. Bill Rossi. | ||
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3D fractals. by Florent Dolidon... and more. | ||
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Sylvie Gallet's Fractal Gallery. Sylvie Gallet is well known for numerous and original formulae she invents to create her fractals. | ||
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Julian's Fractal Page. Julian Adamaitis. | ||
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Fractal Images by Sharon Webb. Images made with Flarium 24 and Tiera-Zon. Fractal music. | ||
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Earl's computer Art Gallery. Earl L. Hinrichs. Very original colouring algorithms. | ||
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Hidden Dimension. Classical and True Color fractals by Ron Barnett. | ||
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Gallery impulse. Margaret and Jack Valero. | ||
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XaoS Fractal Gallery. A gallery of fractals made with this well known program. | ||
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Into the Mystic. Terry W. Gintz. | ||
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Brian E. Jones : Digital Art. | ||
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Fractal Pages of Paul N. Lee. | ||
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Lee Skinner true color Composites. True color images obtained by mixing several 256 color images. | ||
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Fractals by Wizzle. Angela Wilczynski. | ||
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Fractal of the day. Image, formula and text by Jim Muth. | ||
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FrActivity. Janet Parke Preslar. | ||
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Cheshire Cat Fractals. Alice Kelley. | ||
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Fractal's Galore. Cindy Mitchell. | ||
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Pictures from Alien Places. Very original 3D fractals drawn with Fractint by Eduardo Abel Gimenez. | ||
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Les St Clair's Fractal Panorama. | ||
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Fractals as Art. Melissa Binde. | ||
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Bill's gallery. Bill Decker. | ||
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Beyond the zero - random computer art and thought. Peter Jakubowicz. | ||
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Jacco's fractal pages. Jacco Burger. | ||
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Faye's Fractal Creations. Faye Williams. Visit this site using a 1024x780 resolution. | ||
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Digital diversion. Gedeon Peteri. | ||
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Internet Fractal Database. Links towards many galleries. | ||
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Third Apex to Fractovia. Juan Luis Martinez. | ||
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Fractal gourmet. Stig Pettersson. | ||
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Fractal Art - Paul DeCelle's Ultra Fractal Pages. | ||
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Franktal gallery. Miguel Fliguer. | ||
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Giuseppe Zito pictures. | ||
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Virtual gallery. Jean-Marc Silvestre. | ||
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Art et fractales. Charles Vassallo. | ||
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Red'sPlace. Red Williams. | ||
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Art By Garland Hopkins. | ||
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The Paramatematical Gallery. Samuel Monnier. | ||
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Beauty of Fractals. G.W.F. Albrecht. | ||
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EBE FRACTALES. | ||
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Endless Spaces, A Fractal Gallery. Susan Gardner. | ||
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The Bucklin Gallery. Linda Bucklin. | ||
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Fractal Dimentia. Mark Townsend. | ||
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Fractal gallery. Yuan Yufeng. | ||
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Immrama. Tim Fadden. | ||
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Psychedelic sutra fractals. Domenick Annuzzi. | ||
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Rooms with a View -- Terry Wright's Fractal Page. | ||
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Fractal Art by O. Who is O ? | ||
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Amazing Seattle Fractals! Doug Harrington. | ||
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AARTIKA! Original Fractal Designs | ||
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Elements Of Design. Colleen Deery. | ||
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Fractal Art Galleries. Dan Kuzmenka. | ||
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ArtByMath Gallery. René Ertzinger | ||
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Fractility Art Gallery-A Gallery of Fractal Art & Reality. Doug Owen. | ||
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Fractals by Jos Leys. | ||
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Fractal Gallery by KPK. Klaus-Peter Kubik. | ||
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Fractal. Fred de Païva. | ||
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Fractales. Pierre Cattel. | ||
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Fractint contest 97. The images of the contest 97 of fractals made with Fractint. | ||
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Fractal art contest 98. The images of the contest 98 (all fractal programs). | ||
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Fractal art contest 99. The images of the contest 99 (all fractal programs). | ||
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Fractal art contest 2000. The images of the contest 2000 (all fractal programs). | ||
Quaternions |
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Quaternions are a way of generalizing complex numbers. They can therefore be used to obtain fractals, but the latter will spread out in a four dimensional space. Of course, one has to be artful to reduce them to three dimensions, then to restore the impression of relief on the two dimensional picture on your screen. Like this one can obtain strange shapes that resemble modern art sculptures. A few sites follow : | |
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The Space-Time Travel Machine. Jean-François Colonna. | ||
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Skal's 3D-fractals collection. Pascal Massimino. | ||
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Dirk's 3D-Fractal-Homepage. Dirk Meyer. | ||
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Terry W. Gintz's 3D page! Quaternions and other images made with Fractal Zplot. | ||
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Hypercomplex - Fractals and quaternions. Godwin Vickers. | ||
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3D Fractals and ata - art fractal de Tahiti. Denis McCauley. | ||
Strange attractors |
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Flame index. Flame fractals by Scott Draves. | ||
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Frax Flame Fractals. Linda Bucklin | ||
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Chaotic Attractors. 3D strange attractors by Tim Stilson. | ||
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General sites (information, images, programs...) |
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Frequently asked questions about fractal art. Fractal art FAQ. | ||
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Spanky fractal database. By Noel Giffin. One of the most famous site. | ||
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Sprott's Fractal Gallery. Another very famous server. | ||
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PGD's Fractal Gallery. Images and formulae by Paul Derbyshire. | ||
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Ultra Fractal tutorials. By Janet Parke Preslar (a great source). | ||
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Third Apex to Fractovia. Juan Luis Martinez. | ||
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A bit of theory about fractals |
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Most frequently asked questions (FAQ) on fractals. A reference text (latest version: march 98). | ||
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Fractal Explorer Mandelbrot and Julia sets. Complex numbers, Mandelbrot, Julia, quaternion sets and Java applets (Fabio Cesari). | ||
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Godric's fractal gallery. A brief introduction to Fractals. A very good page with clear and well illustrated explanations. | ||
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Lystad Fractal Info. Complex numbers and fractals. | ||
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Fractal eXtreme : fractal theory. Theoretical information. Fractal eXtreme is a commercial program. | ||
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Fract-ED : a fractal tutorial for beginners. For inexperienced students : with exercises. | ||
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Frode Gill. A lot of mathematical and programming data about classical fractals and quaternions. | ||
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Fantastic Fractals. A very good and pedagogic site and a very easy to use program to make (among other things) IFS fractals. | ||
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The InterFACE project. An other site on the same server. | ||
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A fractal lesson. A very good teaching site. | ||
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Patrick's Fractal gallery. Varied theoretical information about Mandelbrot and Julia sets. | ||
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Mu-Ency - The Encyclopedia of the Mandelbrot Set. | ||
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PGD's Quick Guide to the Mandelbrot Set. Paul Derbyshire. | ||
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The Mandelbrot Set and Julia Sets. Binghamton University of New-York. | ||
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The Chaos Hypertextbook. As said in the title. | ||
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Fractals, Chaos. Well illustrated text with explanations about several domains that I don't evoke in my pages. | ||
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Chaos and fractals. Chaos, fractals and strange attractors. | ||
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Programs |
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| Suggestion : if you are a beginner in the fractal domain, it is advisable to start with a simple and handy program (like Aros Fractals or Set Surfer) before using more complex and powerful programs like Fractint, Terry W. Gintz's programs, Stephen Ferguson's programs or Ultra Fractal. I have marked with one or several * the programs that I have used. When the operating system is not mentioned the programs uses Windows 95-98 | |||
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The Web pages devoted to Fractint. Fractint has been during a long time the reference program to create fractal images on PC (DOS) but is limited to 256 colors. ** | ||
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Ultra Fractal. By F. Slijkerman (shareware). Seems to be now the most widely used program. Very powerful and good compatibility with Fractint formulas. Can mix several layers of images in a sophisticated way. **** | ||
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Inkblot, Tiera-Zon, TieraZon2, GrafZViZion, Sterling-Ware... Programs made by Stephen C. Ferguson. No help included but nice original images can be obtained rather easily. Widely used. *** | ||
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Several programs by Terry W. Gintz. Very exhaustive and powerful programs. Less widely used than the foregoing programs (it is a pity). Good compatibility with Fractint parameter files. Can use hypercomplex math, can draw quaternions, hypernions, L-system, with ray-tracing. Animated fractals (AVI). Fractal music (MIDI)... The only program having all these options, but T. W. Gintz has not longer free versions. *** | ||
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QuaSZ software. A program devoted to quaternions, hypercomplexes, octonions and cubic Mandelbrot, by Terry W. Gintz and Godwin Vickers (sold on a CD). *** | ||
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Fractal Orbits. Phil Pickard's Fractal Orbits program was the first freeware program using orbit trap methods (256 colors). * | ||
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Mind-Boggling Fractals. Orbit trap program by Paul Carlson, the inventor of this sort of fractals (sold on a CD). *** | ||
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Fractal Domains. For Mac PowerPC only, by Dennis C. De Mars. See also FravPPC, an older free program. | ||
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Xaos. With this program you can do real time zooming into fractals. DOS, OS/2, Macintosh, Linux versions. | ||
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Chaos Pro. Program by Martin Pfingstl. | ||
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Aros Fractals. A simple and easy to use program (Windows et MacIntosh). | ||
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Set Surfer. A simple and handy program by Jason Letbetter. | ||
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Quat. The Dirk Meyer's quaternion generator. | ||
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Frode Gill's fractal page. A quaternion generator easy to use (his code, improved, has been included into Fractal Zplot). | ||
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Filmer. A stand alone Java program to make animated fractals. | ||
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Java Fractals. Several applets to draw varied fractals. | ||
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Image Forge. Mandelbrot Set, Julia Set, Fractal Planet Generator (Java Applet by Ed Hynan). Very good. | ||
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Quintessential Sophistry Home Page. In this page there is a link to download QS Flame, a freeware program from Michael Sargent to draw "flame" fractals, using strange attractors created by Scott Draves. The most spectacular flame fractal are obtained with a KPT plugin for Photoshop, but this is a rather expensive solution. | ||
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Hop - Fractals in Motion. A strange attractor generator by Michael Peters. | ||
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Fractal Links on Paul N. Lee's website. A compilation of numerous fractal programs. | ||
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Fractal Generators. An other compilation, by Juan Luis Martinez. Very documented. | ||
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