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Some fractal stuff

I have been spending a fair bit of time generating fractals with the Fractview app. I can highly recommend this app to anyone with an interest in the subject. I find it easier to use and to get good results from than any PC program I have found.

Anyway, here is a link to the "favourites" file I have made (it's a 10 MB text file - just download it). It features 500(!) entries. Once you have installed the app, you can install this file by going to "Favorites" in the top right and choosing "Import Collection". There's all sorts of stuff in there, almost all with non-standard formulae that I've devised myself. This isn't just different zooms of the basic Mandelbrot/Julia set, etc. It's whatever I found that was mathematically or visually interesting, or both. There also a series called "scale", starting with the Planck length and ranging up to the observable universe, via semi-truck, Asteroid Belt, Oort Cloud, etc.

If you just want to look at pretty pictures, here is a gallery with 315 images. It starts with the more recent ones, which tend to be more sophisticated/experimental and have more tweaking of the less standard settings. Note that while these are not the full-quality original images, some of the file-sizes are still pretty big.

Oh, you want some examples? I was happy to make some pistachios...

...and to get some weird intrusions into the boring old Mandelbrot set (which is universal - an interesting but technical read):

And is this some kind of cityscape?