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 just point out a few basic but necessary things that I think are neat about ultra fractal.

1) You are able to create fractals at resolutions much larger than your desktop.

2) There is a neat little switch mode that allows you to preview the corresponding Julia set in the sidebar

3) You can link opacity and color within your color palettes on each layer.

4) there is a formula editor, allowing you to adjust and play around with existing formulas.

There is a database of fractals you can download for free, giving you thousands of fractals to explore.
All in all I found ultra fractal very straight forward and easy to use.
It has excellent tutorials for beginners and many of the functions and options that are available to you as an artist or a fractal explorer are almost overwhelming in choice – allowing you to create a project that is as simple or as complicated as you want.
Ultra Fractal.

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 – its amazing.

video is taken from bib993′s channel on you tube – Krzysztof Marczak is the creator of this software.
you can create amazing images and if you have a very fast CPU (recomended 2GHz, 4 cores) some amazing animations as well, and there are good help files.

I had to add this amazing animation –  if you have not seen it already it shows off the “fog” and “depth of field” effects. there are plenty of other parameters to manipulate including amongst them a cool glow effect, as seen here,

you can download Krzysztof Marczaks mandelbulber software for free from here
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mandelbulber/

real time zooming! simple easy to use fractal explorer! free!  choose a download link…

XaoS for Windows | XaoS for Mac OS X | Instructions for XaoS | XaoS Open Source Project

This is the dazzling Real-Time Zoomer fractal software that allows you smooth zooming live!

Explore the Mandelbrot set and 23 other fractals.

Used by children everywhere,

it’s even simple enough for adults.

Free!

Electric Sheep

This is an incredible evolving collaborative fractal screen saver project. Download the screensaver (for Mac, PC or linux) and let your computer help create some of the most beautiful fractal animations anywhere. Interact with it by voting on your favorite sheep, and help contribute to the fractal evolution!

Free!