What is the best program to make fractals?

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Hello, Alberto Negri !! What is best depends on what you want to do and what types of fractals you are wishing to create. If you want to know what over 2,150 people prefer using, then some statistics may be found at this URL: http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/Most_Used_Counts.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SHORT AND SIMPLE: The fractal related newsgroups get a lot of requests regarding fractal information. The following is by no means an exhaustive listing. (For the exhaustive list see the next section of this document.) Just below is a listing of a few of the programs (some freeware; some shareware) frequently used by persons posting to the binary newsgroups. Flarium/Iterations/Tiera-Zon/SterlingWare/ and others.... http://www.eclectasy.com/Iterations-et-Flarium24/ (mirror) http://www-hs.iuta.u-bordeaux.fr/ferguson/ Fractal-ViZion/Fractal-ZPlot/Crocus/ and others.... http://www.eclectasy.com/twg/ http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/5601/ Fractint http://spanky.triumf.ca/www/fractint/ Fractal eXtreme http://www.cygnus-software.com/ Quaternion Package (QuaSZ, Cubics, QuatPOV, DynaMaSZ, etc.) http://www.hypercomplex.org/ UltraFractal http://www.ultrafractal.com/ XenoDream http://www.xenodream.com/ For the MAC: ------------ FracPPC & Fractal Domains http://www.fractaldomains.com/ other MAC programs: http://66.39.71.195/Software/MAC/ http://www.arosmagic.com/Fractals/ http://www.lor-thil.dircon.co.uk/ http://hypertextbook.com/chaos/92.shtml http://spanky.triumf.ca/pub/fractals/programs/MAC/ http://archives.math.utk.edu/software/mac/fractals/ http://radagast.org/~dplatt/mac/ http://www.swin.edu.au/astronomy/pbourke/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For an exhaustive list of fractal generators, galleries featuring fractals, and other fractal related information, go to the following: http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/Fractal_Software.html and http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/Fractal_Census.html and http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/Fractal_Links.txt +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For fractal related postings, be sure to view these Usenet Newsgroups: news:alt.binaries.pictures.fractals news:alt.fractals.pictures news:alt.fractals news:sci.fractals news:alt.binaries.fractal-art And this forum at Renderosity: http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?Sectionid=30&MostWanted=Yes Or these online website eGroup Lists: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fractal-world http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xenodreampix http://groups.yahoo.com/group/QuaSZ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chaospro http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fractalvision (and over sixty more) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tutorials on Software use (URL alphabetical order): ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://lonestar.texas.net/~dragon13/free_tutorial.html http://perso.club-internet.fr/dreamp/tutorialeng2.htm http://spanky.triumf.ca/www/fractint/preslar.html http://www.digitalproducer.com/aHTM/Tutorials/ http://www.digitalproducer.com/pages/fractal_terrains_in_bryce_2.htm http://www.fractalarts.com/ASF/Tutor1.html http://www.geocities.com/soler97/tz-instr.html http://www.lindabucklin.com/flame_tutorial/ http://www.parkenet.org/jp/ufhome.html http://www.thinkpiece.com/resources/tutorial_4.asp ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tutorials on Fractal Creation (URL alphabetical order): ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://fractalarts.com/ASF/Tutor1.html http://gallery.uunet.be/LenaertsW/fractals.htm http://home.san.rr.com/jayrhill/iFAQ/Resource.htm (several) http://home4.swipnet.se/~w-42040/mandel.html http://math.bu.edu/DYSYS/FRACGEOM/FRACGEOM.html http://math.bu.edu/DYSYS//FRACGEOM2/FRACGEOM2.html http://members.xoom.com/edpizzi/docs/docs.html http://skal.planet-d.net/quat/How.ang.html http://user.tninet.se/~cim027f/CubTut/cubictut.html http://www.eclectasy.com/Iterations-et-Flarium24/stephenf/Tutorials/Coloring/Coloring.html http://www.eclectasy.com/Iterations-et-Flarium24/stephenf/Tutorials/FDimension/dimension.html http://www.olympus.net/personal/dewey/mandelbrot.html http://w1.111.telia.com/~u11109996/CubTut/cubictut.html Sincerely, P.N.L.

If you look at the Fractal gallery here with a "Most" option, then it is also nice to choose "Most commented" or "Best rated" and to compare....

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Hello, Andreas K. Lober. You must have misunderstood the original question. They were not interested in what this one single forum has in the various ways of viewing posted images. They wanted to know about fractal programs. And there really is no one program that is the best over all others, because so many have something special to offer that another does not. That is why it depends on what an individual is wishing to do in the way of fractal generation.

I don't think you have understood my answer... Looking at "Most commented" images and seeing what fractal generator was used is a way to find out something about fractal programs.

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Oh, I well understood your answer... That is why I mentioned "this one single forum". See I know that the various forums are mostly groups of individuals that use a specific program. And only if an individual goes to all of the various forums and asks the same question will it even begin to get close to a truthful answer as to what fractal generator is more popular. For example, on Yahoo's Fractal-World group the most seen type of images are from XenoDream. And at one time, the most seen type of images on the alt.binaries.fractal-art Usenet Newsgroup were from the Fractal Explorer program. So what is popular on "one single forum" does not tell someone what is the best. And by directing them in such a manner is basically misleading them intentionally. :-) Besides, so far as I have seen, this is what over 2,150 people say they use the most: http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/Most_Used_Counts.html

I can't believe that only 2 people use KPT and only one uses Bryce... Or is KPT the same as KPT5? I just wanted to say in my first reply that "Most viewed" is as misleading as "Most commented" or "Best rated". But I myself look at galleries with "What's new" and "Most commented". And I gave my own opinion, no intentional misleading was meant. Perhaps you should not believe only in the bad sides of mankind. For example in the Poser gallery: "Most viewed" shows the biggest breasts, "Most commented" the IMO most interesting images overview. For me "Most viewed" is misleading.

Attached Link: http://66.39.71.195/Fractals/

If your mentioing of the KPT and Bryce use refers to the statistical webpage at: http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/Most_Used_Counts.html then this is not the number of people that ONLY use those products. The 'Fractal Census' has two categories for each individual listed: one for all the programs they have tried and use, and another for the one that they use the most (another words what they prefer and think is best). The stats listed at the above link show that second category, and not the only users as you seem to think. That is why it has the title of "Most Used Counts". ;-} And KPT2, KPT3, KPT5 are all capable of generating fractal images, and are collectively referred to as "KPT" (when I do not know the particular version that someone uses. And just because a few images have comments (or ratings) from the same group of a dozen or so individuals praising each other all the time, does not mean that those same images have been viewed by more people who are interested in seeing something 'more popular'. ;-} There are several fractal related forums that have a predominate clique which tend to extol and exalt each other with admiration, rarely expressing the same approval and commendation to those outside of their exclusive group. The fractal forum here at Renderosity is no different. Perhaps you should not believe that the ostracizing of specific people does not ake place within mankind. ;-}

If you believe that I am part of a "clique" as you call it - then you are right. And I really enjoy being a part of a nice group. But if you believe that I am constrained to that group then you are totally wrong. My group has found its members by similarity in tastes (among other reasons). I like to comment on images that appeal me, be they Xenodream, Ultrafractal, Bryce, or whatever was used to create them, with or without post-processing. This grouping "of a dozen or so individuals" in commenting each others images is IMO a matter of taste, not of forming a clique or of elitism. And it is more a matter of chance. I do not comment on all my clique members' images and vice versa. And please don't use such difficult words as "ostracizing" when you address me - the stupid non-native speaker that I am... I know that the world is a bad place, and the war of Ultrafractal against Fractint is one of the highlights in the history of evil.