Apophysis Alternatives

Apophysis is described as 'Fractal flame editor and renderer for Microsoft Windows. It was created by Mark Townsend by translating Scott Draves original C code into Delphi and adding a graphical user interface[citation needed]' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Apophysis for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, iPad and Web-based apps. The best Apophysis alternative is Electric Sheep, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Apophysis are ExploreFractals, Xaos, Sterling2 and Ultra Fractal.

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  1. Electric Sheep icon
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    Electric Sheep is a collaborative abstract artwork founded by Scott Draves. It's run by thousands of people all over the world, and can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers "sleep", the Electric Sheep comes on and the computers communicate...

    5 Electric Sheep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Comments about Electric Sheep as an Alternative to Apophysis
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    Apophysis is for editing and rendering custom fractals, Electric Sheep is passive collaborative art.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    Electric Sheep icon
    • Electric Sheep is Free and Open SourceApophysis is also Free and Open Source
  2. With this program you can test the effect of inflections / Julia morphings on the Mandelbrot set and some other fractal types. This works by transforming the plane and then actually rendering the fractal. Each click adds an inflection at the location of the cursor.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Xaos icon
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    XaoS is an interactive fractal zoomer. It allows the user to continuously zoom in or out of a fractal in a fluid, continuous motion. This capability makes XaoS great for exploring fractals, and it’s fun!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Sterling2 icon
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    Sterling 2 is build on the grounds of Sterling, a fractal-generating commerial program written in 1999.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Ultra Fractal icon
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    Ultra Fractal is a fractal generation and rendering software application. The program works using a similar paradigm to Photoshop, allowing multiple layers to be combined using layer blending modes, transformations and custom fractal formulas.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. JWildfire icon
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    Modern ui, soft developed and ugraded by andreas maschke for design 2d and 3d fractal flames. Very nice app and powerful.

    16 JWildfire alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Oxidizer icon
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    "Oxidizer is a free open source fractal flame editor for the Apple Macintosh, running OSX 10.4 or greater."

    10 Oxidizer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Comments about Oxidizer as an Alternative to Apophysis
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    Oxidizer is a powerful editor, letting the user create some very cool images and effects.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Oxidizer is Free and Open SourceApophysis is also Free and Open Source
  8. Chaoscope icon
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    Chaoscope is a 3D strange attractors rendering software. The word "Chaoscope" was invented by Ralph Abraham to describe computer tools used to help comprehending dynamic systems, a superset of the strange attractors.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Qosmic icon
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    Qosmic is graphical interface for creating, editing, and rendering flam3 fractal images. The electricsheep screen saver has been gaining popularity, and Qosmic was developed to provide a Qt interface for people interested in creating and contributing sheep.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. ChaosPro icon
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    Windows 95/98/NT fractal generation and exploration program with 3D, network, animation, 24 bit support, compatible to FractInt, compatible to UltraFractal (excluding UF class based formulas).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. A fractal generator that can create almost any fractal.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Design and view beautiful fractals via a serverless site (AWS Lambda, Aurora) with a React frontend.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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