JW's Fractal Images Page

The pictures on this page are from a couple of ActiveX controls I wrote years ago, so long ago in fact I can no longer find them. One generates Mandelbrot and Julia sets (with a choice of 4 colouring algorithms), the other generates pictures by applying random afine transformations from a user defined set repeatedly to a point.

These controls are lost forever, if you want to draw your own Mandelbrot or Julia set images visit my python patterns page.

Mandelbrot and Julia Images

Some standard Mandelbrot images given the Paintshop Pro "Hot Wax" treatment.

Another Mandelbrot. I can't remember what I did to this one, possibly "Edge Enhancement".

A couple of standard Julia set images in their original format.

This is one of the alternative colouring schemes. Rather than counting the iterations taken for the orbit to escape" the |z| = 2 circle this scheme records the closest approach the orbit made to (0,0) before ultimately escaping. Closer approaches are coloured a lighter blue. This creates blue globes around all the mini copies of the Mandelbrot set that litter the main one, making them easier to find than in the standard colouring.

This scheme is similar to previous scheme but separates the distance from (0,0) into horizontal and vertical components. The smallest values of |x| and |y| in the orbit are used to blue and green components in the image. This creates blue and green bands that intersect where the mini Mandelbrots lie in the previous scheme.

Some Mandelbrots in their original form, free from PSP transformations. Four of them form two pairs showing the effect of increasing the cutoff point in the iteration.

Afine Transformation Images

A collection of patterns that have been put through the PaintShop Pro 4 hot wax special effect.

And here are some images directly as they came out of the OCX.