The ultimate Mandelbrot set explorer for Macintosh


MX provides a set of tools to explore the Mandelbrot set and the related Julia sets. It is designed to not only produce awe-inspiring images, but to facilitate learning about how these images are produced. Visual editors are provided which mimic the actual algorithm in the program.

Images from MX

It provides:


What it is Not:
It is not everything to everyone. It is not designed to be able to produce 7000 "types of fractals." It is designed to explore the relation between the Mandelbrot set and the Julia sets. It is designed to promote learning about these very interesting sets. Many of those "comprehensive" fractal programs out there get so bogged down with providing 2^n + 1 features that they miss out on many interesting details of each one.

And now...


Last modified 12/17/94