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Apollonian Sphere Fractal - Windows-based software for generating and visualizing the apollonian spheres.

Aros Fractals - A free, high-resolution, true-color fractal program for Windows 95/NT, and Macintosh.

Artlandia - A Mathematica-based software for creating mathematical, and algorithmic art.

ArtMatic - Power Macintosh shareware generator that renders still and animated images.

Brazil Fractal Builder - A freeware IFS fractal program for Windows 95/NT.

Chaoscope - Three-dimensional attractors rendering freeware for Windows. Provides 5 different rendering modes and 9 equations.

ChaosPro - Freeware fractal generator. Can do 24 bit and 3D transforms, including Quaternions. Includes history of program, gallery and fractal theory information.

Chaotic Dynamic Systems - Interactive applets that show billiard dynamic system motion in various shaped tables. Addresses mathematical concept.

Chaotic Processes Analyzer (CPA) Project - Downloadable software for calculating the correlation dimension of reconstructed attractor. Based on algorithms from the TISEAN project.

Creativity Software, Inc. - Offers generators, viewers, and merchandises. Includes images and movies.

Double Fractal - Freeware fractal ganerator that can export images as POVRay files.

Easy Fractal for Macintosh - Fractal Generator with real-time zoom and large variety of effects.

Ephemera - A free screen saver for Windows 95/NT, which draws random IFS fractals, giving an ever-changing display of complex shapes.

µFrac - Distributed fractal explorer for mobile devices (phones and PDAs). Current supported platform is the J2ME, plus MIDP.

Fractal Explorer - Freeware to generate fractal images and animations. Includes source codes and galleries.

Fractal eXtreme - Win32 shareware program for exploration of the Mandelbrot set and other fractals.

The Fractal Farm - An on-line tool for viewing and breeding IFS fractal images.

Fractal Image Generator - Practice making fractals with this online tool. Features preview of image and dwell and frequency table.

Fractal Links - Amazing Seattle Fractals - Fractal art tutorials and free fractal software.

Fractal Morphing Screen Saver - Sscreensaver featuring morphing and deformation. Includes downloads, screenshots and contact.

Fractal Studio - Complex, quaternion and phase-plane raytracer, featuring many different lightning models. Includes mathematical background and downloads. [German, English]

Fractal terrain generation software - fracplanet is GPL-ed free software for generating fractal planets and terrain. It uses Qt and OpenGL.

Fractalyse - Measures fractal dimension of image and curve with several methods. Includes documentation and related publications. [English, French]

Fractint - A freeware fractal generator, created for PC-compatible computers, to run under DOS and ported to Linux.

FractSurf - Zoom through a library of fractals. Free download, Windows.

Fracture: A fractal screensaver - Fracture is a screensaver for Mac OS X that can generate a wide variety of fractal images, including the Mandelbrot Set, Julia sets, Self-Squared Dragons, and Attraction Basin fractals.

Fraqtive - Open source program for drawing Mandelbrot and Julia fractals using optimized navigation algorithms. Includes snapshots and features overview.

FUI - Functional User Interface - is a free, open-source program that allows the user to generate procedural textures, based on noise-based fractals.

GEOSS: A Fractal Geometry Art Screensaver - Screensaver for Microsoft Windows featuring Julia and Mandelbrot sets, dynamic systems, stereograms, automatons and L-systems. Includes basics, sample computer code and contact.

Ghost Diagrams - Software for assembling sets of tiles. Includes samples and downloads.

Glito - A free explorer of 2D Iterated Function System fractals for GNU/Linux and Windows. Includes gallery and formula information.

Gnofract 4D - Four-dimensional, inter-relational Mandelbrot and Julia set generator. Includes gallery, manuals, mathematical concepts, downloads and contact information.

HOP - DOS/Windows shareware fractal generator and screensaver, based on Martin (Hopalong) and Gumowski/Mira attractors.

Into the Mystic - Software to excite the imagination and help create intriguing two and three-dimensional images. Includes news, software, FAQs, gallery and contact.

Java Lindenmayer Systems - Java desktop program rendering two-dimensional Lindemayer sets. Includes technical background, download, installation instructions and screenshots.

LinSys3D - Creates two and three dimensional bitmap and POV-Ray output of L-Systems.

LSysEdit - Creates fractal plant images from a few bytes of text. LSysEdit edits and views Lsystems, and saves the images created by them as .bmp files. Free download.

Makin' Magic Fractals - A 32-bit DOS freeware program download, as well as example galleries.

Mandelbrot Applet - Generator with color selection and auto-zoom feature. Uses java.

Mandelbrot Explorer - Freeware package allowing simple, colourful, customisable exploration of the Mandelbrot and Julia sets.

Mandelbrot Set Explorer - Applet for discovering interesting regions of the Mandelbrot set.

MandelView - Freeware Windows program for exploring the Mandelbrot set.

Montagne 3D - A virtual landscape generator, based on fractal technology. After creation, the landscape can be modified by a graphic editor part of the application. Windows 95/98/NT shareware.

PhatFractal - Freeware Windows 95/98 fractal animation generator.

PhoneFractal - Mandelbrot explorer for mobile phones.

Programmer's Lair - Offers several Fractint-enhancing and original programs. Full source code is also available.

Quintessential Sophistry - Offers several Michael Sargent's QS-series DOS and Windows fractal generators.

Ququqa Fractals - Interactive applets showing several types of attractors and sets.

Redecorator - Shareware wallpaper manager, and fractal image creator for Windows 95/98/NT/2000.

Refract - Exploration tool of the Mandelbrot and Julia sets in a Java applet. Source code included.

Robert Inventor's Programs - Fractal music generator; animated 3D virtual flowers in compressed VRML format.

SA18 Chaos Engine and Screen Saver - Virtual Basic program for exploring strange attractor images.

Seractal Fractals Screensaver - Draws full-screen fractals, with virtually unlimited variety in its colors and images. Win32 shareware.

Terry's Downloads - Site provides two Windows fractal programs: Fractal ViZion and Dofo-Zon.

Two-dimensional L-systems - Also called Lindenmayer systems or parallel string-rewrite systems, a compact way to describe iterative graphics using a turtle analogy. Mathematica examples.

Ultra Fractal - Shareware Windows 95/98/NT fractal plotter. A fractal consists of one or more layers, which are merged in Photoshop-like fashion. Each layer has its own fractal formula, location, and coloring algorithms.

Video For FRACTINT - This site describes a freeware Fractal Image Sequence Generator based on FRACTINT. It contains example videos of what can be achieved with it.

Visions Of Chaos - Windows application that generates fractals, cellular automata, attractors, IFS, L-systems, music, and other related simulations. Supports 2D and 3D fractal generation and movies.

XaoS - Fast portable realtime fractal zoomer.

XenoDream - Generator that renders 3D IFS fractal images, and enables lighting post-processing.

Zuk - Dynamic, real-time Mandelbrot fractal viewer for DOS.