Split point was an experiment. HD is ON! so hit full screen! if you have a slow line just click the HD icon on the player to switch it off. After rendering my first few animations of the mandelbox – I found my camera skills leaving a lot to be desired, when it came to... Read More »

Vimeo version (13m.44s) What can I say?  how about the bare facts. I will let you make up your mind about the animation itself and hope you leave a comment. so here are the facts… Two days to set up, and then six months to render, resulted in around forty 1.9GB uncompressed anti-aliased x 4... Read More »

In 1903, French mathematician Henri Poincare introduced the notions of chaos theory while studying the famous three-body problem. The three body problem required a prediction of the movement of a simplified solar system consisting of the sun, moon and earth governed by the Newtonian laws of motion. Poincare found out that even a system as... Read More »

So what is a “fractal”? And what do fractals tell us about the nature of truth? Begin by knowing that a fractal is one of the two kinds of geometry present in our world. And yes, no matter what people say, in our world, there are only two major categories of geometry. Fractal. And other... Read More »

After taking inspiration from miqel.com I thought I would spread the word about the different names for the different parts of the Mandelbrot set. The image below shows what different areas of the Mandelbrot set are called by many fractalists. You can click on the image to take a closer look. miqel.com is an amazing website that from my point... Read More »

for best effect – click play on selected gallery and then click the little square full screen icon on the left hand side of the gallery 3D fractals flame fractals pheonix julia fractal Mandelbrot... Read More »

Yes! this is the news that “Chinese dragon ferns on fire in ice” is being re released with a new sound track. Sign up to the newsletter now or our RSS feed to be one of the first to be notified when an animation goes live from... Read More »

This Image is Interactive! Click to Zoom!! Click to zoom, shift + click to zoom out. Command + drag or arrow keys to pan. m key to change mapping modes. a to set anti-aliasing. The Mandelbrot formula z’ = z2 + c is calculated for each pixel where its coordinates seed the a and b components of the... Read More »

Ultra Fractal. When you are ready for more power, Ultra Fractal is an awesome, professional package that supports animation, arbitrarily deep fractals, extremely high resolution, multiple layers, transparency, 3D and so many other neat things that there just is no way I can tell you about all of them right here. I will how ever... Read More »

This is a new piece of software that in in its infancy but alfready it is capable of producing animations like this amazing example of the mandelbox – a new variation of the 3d Mandelbrot? The download link for software is at the bottom of the page but check out what its capable of first... Read More »