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

    Electric Sheep

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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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    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 is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Apophysis.

    • Electric Sheep is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Apophysis.

    • Electric Sheep is Free and Open SourceApophysis is also Free and Open Source

  2. ExploreFractals

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    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.

    13 ExploreFractals alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. Xaos icon

    Xaos

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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!

    13 Xaos alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Sterling2

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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
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  6. Ultra Fractal icon

    Ultra Fractal

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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.

    14 Ultra Fractal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     

    • Ultra Fractal is the most popular commercial alternative to Apophysis.

    • Ultra Fractal is Paid and ProprietaryApophysis is Free and Open Source
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    JWildfire

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. Oxidizer icon

    Oxidizer

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    "Oxidizer is a free open source fractal flame editor for the Apple Macintosh, running OSX 10.4 or greater."

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    Oxidizer is a powerful editor, letting the user create some very cool images and effects.

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    • Oxidizer is Free and Open SourceApophysis is also Free and Open Source
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    Chaoscope

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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
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    Qosmic

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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
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  12. ChaosPro icon

    ChaosPro

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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
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  13. Fractal Science Kit icon

    Fractal Science Kit

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    A fractal generator that can create almost any fractal.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    fractal.parts

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    • fractal.parts is the most popular Web-based & Self-Hosted alternative to Apophysis.

    • fractal.parts is Free and Open SourceApophysis is also Free and Open Source
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