There was a Thread I know, I wrote it but damned if I can find it now so....this is pretty much what it consisted of.

It depends on the type of Fractals you are interested in, normal 2d fractals, 3d Fractals, Bsaeshape driven Fractals etc. Ultra Fractal and Xenodream you need to purchase the program, Incendia is a good Free app very much akin to Xenodream. There are Many Free applications available for the many different types of Fractals. Apophysis is a great Free 2d/3d Fractal Flame explorer/generator that gives great results with many free Plugins and Scripts available at DeviantArt Resources along with a ton of tutorials available there also. There is also the 3D "Mandelbulber" and "Mandelbulb3D'' (my personal favorite) programs which are Free. Mandelbulber and Mandelbulb3D are very similar in results with Bulber having a Better but slower Render engine and is less user friendly than Mandelbulb3D. Mandelbulb3D (MB3D) is very easy to use, there are many starter parameters shared by the users of the program everywhere, you can basically be creating excellent 3D Fractals within an extremely short period of time without a great amount of fractal experience. Like I said it depends on what type of Fractals interest you, cruise the gallery decide where your interest is and go for it. You can always post questions here in this Forum and I'm sure, depending on the program, myself or someone else can help you out.

 

Here's some links for some of the better programs

Mandelbulb3D, a 3d Fractal Generator by designed by Jesse(Jens Dierks) of FractalForums
http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=downloads

Mandelbulber, a 3D Fractal Generator designed by Buddhi(Krzysztof Marczak)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mandelbulber/
http://www.mandelbulber.com/download.php

Incendia, 3D Fractal Generator designed by Aexion
http://www.incendia.net/

Fractron 9000, Open GPU Fractal Flame Explorer
http://fractron9000.sourceforge.net/

Fractal Science Kit
http://www.fractalsciencekit.com/

Fragmentarium, an Open GPU Fractal Explorer
https://github.com/Syntopia/Fragmentarium

The Original Apophysis from Apophysis.org

http://apophysis.org/

Apophysis7x by Xyrus

http://apophysis.xyrus-worx.org/

J-Wildfire

http://www.andreas-maschke.com/?page_id=351

 Fractal Explorer

http://www.eclectasy.com/Fractal-Explorer/

UltraFractal

http://www.ultrafractal.com/

ChaosPro

http://www.chaospro.de/download.php

 

 

 

Some Tutorials

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2846326

 

 

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