Raimuraito ~ v1.7
OS: Win9x/Me
author: Yasuo Kamei
url: http://www.ab.cyberhome.ne.jp
Raimuraito is a new fractal generator that can produce some very unique and interesting pictures. It’s still in its very early stages of development (so it has a few bugs and is quite slow), but judging by what it can already do (using flowers, fishes, rings and other methods to contour the fractal figures), there’s a lot to be expected once it reaches maturity. Certainly, one generator to keep an eye on.
Last revision: 11 February 2002.
Saturn & Titan ∼ v4.2.1
OS: Win/Linux
author: Mark R. Eggleston
url: https://element90.wordpress.com
Saturn is the older brother of Neptune (I’m strickly speaking about fractal generators), and as such can generate fractal pictures. Notice: Don’t judge the program by the screenshot included in here: it’s just an image created to adorn the screen capture, not to demonstrate Staurn’s full potential. Just visit its website to take a look at better sample images. Saturn can save images, called seeds, as PNG files. Then, you can import the seeds in Titan to create and save images of an even larger size. I don’t know why these two programs aren’t integrated in a single unit, but that’s the way they work (both applications come in one package and install automatically). I do like the fact that all image’s parameters are easy to access from a secondary window, that you can open alongside the image window and keep real-time track of changes, a nice thing to learn what each variable can do. Extensive documentation available as a PDF file from the parent website.
Last revision: 2014.
Sterling2 ~ v1
OS: Win
author: Stephen C. Ferguson & Tad Boniecki
url: http://soler7.com
Sterling2 is a derivative work of Stephen C. Ferguson’s Sterling-ware fractal generator and Tad Boniecki’s particular collection of 50 new fractal formulas to produce a myriad of different images unique to this program, but superimposed –so to speak– over the original software (they feel and look identical). Contrary to Ferguson’s generators of the same name (still freeware but requiring a membership payment to access the collection), this one is freely available from Boniecki’s website.
Last revision: 11 October 1999.
TS Fractal Explorer ~ v3.01 beta
OS: Win9x/NT/Me/XP
author: Sergei Dolgov
url: http://home.onego.ru
This is a fractal generating program that uses the TS Graphics Library v1.0 beta (as if that were important) to plot its images. It’s pretty simple and slow. Images, which doesn’t look that good, can be saved as BMP files. May have some secrets deep inside that I haven’t discovered. No documentation.
Last revision: 07 June 1998.
Windows Chaos Image Generator ~ v2.00
OS: Win9x/NT/2000
author: Thomas Hövel
url: http://www.th-soft.com
WinCIG is another very simple Mandelbrot set generator that is very easy to use. Most of its processes are automated, so users only have to use the mouse to draw a little rectangle to cover the region they want to zoom in. Automatically, a small window with some extra parameters will pop-up, allowing the modification of any value. It also comes with a palette editor. Images can be saved in BMP format.
Last revision: 19 August 2002.
GNU Xaos ~ v4.21
OS: Platform Independent
author: Thomas Marsh and Jan Hubicka
url: https://xaos-project.github.io
alt: http://sourceforge.net
XaoS is a real-time fractal zoomer that can calculate Mandelbrot and other fractals significantly fast and on the go. Supports palette changing, and the images can be saved in PNG format. New version is only available as a platform independent package (that is, same package for multiple operating systems, specifically: Windows, BSD, Mac and Linux). It’s an open source project, so the source code is also available. The Windows package seems to be 32-bit only, while all others are 64-bit.
Last revision: 18 January 2021.