Fractalshades is a Python package for creating static and interactive fractal visualizations, with a particular focus on ultra-deep zoom exploration of the Mandelbrot and Burning Ship sets.
It combines arbitrary-precision computation with an interactive interface and a programmable API, making it suitable for exploring intricate regions, generating high-quality renders, and building reproducible fractal workflows.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports arbitrary-precision deep zoom exploration at extremely small scales.
- Uses optimized rendering techniques based on perturbation methods and chained bilinear approximations.
- Offers both an interactive GUI and a Python API for scripted fractal generation.
- Includes multiple fractal models such as Mandelbrot, Burning Ship, Collatz, and power tower variants.
- Provides post-processing tools including colormaps, image layers, lighting effects, and projection options.
- Can generate animations with movie, pan, zoom, and custom sequence modules.
- Lets users export GUI settings as runnable Python scripts for batch mode rendering.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows
Website: github.com/GBillotey/Fractalshades
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Developer: Geoffroy Billotey
License: MIT License
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