Mandelbrot Screensaver

The era of screensavers as necessary tools has long past - the modern screensaver is more about pleasure and entertainment than nebulous security or hardware protection.

The Mandelbrot fractal is a mathematical curiosity that produces some striking images when magnified. A high-level view of the fractal is shown here.

nicheMANDELBROTsaver is a screensaver that automatically generates images from the Mandelbrot fractal, generating a never ending display of fractal images on your screen.

Geek Note: The fractal is found on the complex number plane in the region -2-2 i to 2+2 i. Each pixel in an image represents a single point from this region. The colour of a pixel is determined by the speed at which the sequence z_n = z_n-1² + z₀ tends to infinity. Phew!

Features

• Autonomous (fully automatic) exploration of the Mandelbrot Fractal (You never know what you'll see);
• Configurable display structure and colours.

This screensaver is released as Freeware - there is no charge for it. If you like it - keep it and pass it on to your friends. If not, try something else.

If you have any problems with nicheMANDELBROTsaver, please email me and I'll look into it.

Note: This new version requires the runtime for .NET 3.5 to be available - this is a free download from Microsoft.

Screenshots

Here are some captures from my own machine showing the fractal patterns drawn by the screensaver.

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Note that these images have been heavily compressed for web display - this has made them slightly fuzzy when compared side by side with the originals.