Just found Fractal explorer 2.0 a day ago and been playing with it ever since. It's an amazing piece of software, Think I'm an addict already :) I remember being fascinated and bewildered about the square root of -1 when I was a kid. Then 40 years later I discover Fractals :) Anyway any simple tips and advice would be very much apreciated. Thanks

I am still fascinated and bewildered by i... welcome to the world of fractal art. Have a good time; make pictures you like; print them, throw them away and make better ones.

Welcome to the grand obsession! The best tip has already been given. Make pictures you like..and post them in the gallery!!! You can always ask questions here, and someone will probably come up with an answer. FE is one of my favorite fractal programs, but you kind of have to ask specific questions for me to be of any help. LOL Miriah

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I'll second the welcome. Eventually you're going to have to discover the joy of layering fractals. As far as I know UltraFractal is the only fractal generator that allows you to layer them. So it's worth checking out.

Hey - neat fractal! Welcome aboard!

If you think that blows your mind, wait until you start exploring 3 dimensional space fractals known as quaternions. The output of programs, like the one that you used, are only 2 dimensional. Yes, I know that they can be layered, but they still are derived from 2D mathematics. If you use the same formula with the same coordinates, but add a third dimension, the image can get really wierd (or plain). Think about this: If imaginary numbers come from the square root of -1, what is the square root of an imaginary number? Mind boggling, isn't it? The only way to display such mathematics is to run a ray-trace rendering from a 3D point in quaternion space. I call this image, "Utter Chaos in Quaternion Space".

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