A Fractal viewing program primarily for Mandelbrot and Julia fractals.  Provides for zooming and switching between various fractal formulas.  The main intent was to get a good coloring algorithm, which I think I have accomplished.  Once you have found an interesting location in the fractal, and a nice coloring scheme, you can either save the screen image, or render to file for a much larger image. 

The only thing included in the download is the .exe file.  This should be sufficient provided you have the .Net 2.0 Framework installed.

 

If you are interested in coding your own - I would recommend the book "The Compuational Beauty of Nature" by Gary Willam Flake.  It does not have a how-to on coding, but it does give the needed concepts with good pseudo code to get you started.

 

Known Issues:
There's one known bug that when you render to file, if you then right click to redraw, the screen is offset a bit.  I haven't tracked it down - and probably won't spend the time to.

Prerequisites:
.Net Framework 2.0 available from Microsoft.com for free.

Download: Fractal Explorer