Fred's Fractal Factory and Viewer

Fred's Fractal Factory and Viewer doesn't try to be the best fractal generation program around. There are lots of other programs around that do that better. See Fractint. Fred tries to do several things well:

• Allow the user to rapidly pan and zoom through extremely large(> 1 trillion pixel) pre-calculated fractal images.
• Provide tools for interactively creating palettes and experimenting with color.
• Allow the user to easily create very large prints, eg. 10 feet square.
• Provide a 'bookmarking' mechanism akin to favorites in a browser. These allow you to save named views in fractal space so you can return to them easily. We call these bookmarks 'locales'.

Fred is available for download and it is free! It can easily take days to pre-calculate the images using the Factory, but once you have done so, everything looks amazing in the Viewer.

You can browse Fred's help files online:

• Fred's Fractal Factory help
• Fred's Fractal Viewer help
• Palette Selector help
• Spectrum Gradient help

Here is a gallery of Mandelbrot sample images created with Fred. Click on an image to view the full size version.

Identical images, different palettes:

This is the Spectrum Gradient application that is bundled with Fred. It allows you to interactively create interesting palettes.

The following three images are all identical except that their palettes are 'shifted':

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