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Playful thinking

I found these beautiful images at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_fractal. Naturally I would like to create them and play with others. But where do I find free PC software for this? Do you know?

Problem source: Plotting the roots of run-of-the-mill polynomials yields dazzling results.

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4 Responses to “Playful thinking”

  1. The Beast in Black Says:
    January 16th, 2010 at 12:18 am

    A cursory Google search reveals:

    http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/newton/ (Program here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/newton/newton.c)

    More here:
    http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/fractals/Fractal_Software_Fractal_Art_Generators_Information_About_Fractals.htm

    And here:
    http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/Fractal_Software.html

    From the last link above, I’d try Fractal Explorer.

  2. The Beast in Black Says:
    January 16th, 2010 at 12:19 am

    Hm? It looks like my previous comment with links didn’t make it through….

  3. Jan Nordgreen Says:
    January 16th, 2010 at 12:26 am

    “Akismet has caught 41,888 spam for you since you first installed it.”

    Due to the many links it thought your comment was spam. If you hadn’t told me, it would never have been published. (:

    Thanks for the links! Time to play!

  4. Glenn Says:
    January 16th, 2010 at 1:43 am

    Another software to try is ChaosPro:
    http://www.chaospro.de/

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