Fragmentarium, free fractal worlds explorer

Fragmentarium is an open source, cross-platform IDE for exploring pixel based graphics on the GPU. It is inspired by Adobe's Pixel Bender, but uses GLSL, and is created specifically with fractals and generative systems in mind.

Download link: http://syntopia.github.io/Fragmentarium/get.html

Features:

• Multi-tabbed IDE, with GLSL syntax highlighting
• User widgets to manipulate parameter settings
• High-resolution (tile) renderings
• Progressive rendering, for high quality AA, and distributed ray tracing.
• HDR (RGBE .HDR) support and tone mapping
• Support for simple animations
• Modular GLSL programming - include other fragments
• More than 100 examples, including 3D fractals (Mandelbulb, Mandelbox, Quaternion, Kaleidoscopic IFS), 2D fractals (Mandelbrots, Ducks, spherical Julias), Heightmaps, Knots and Hyperbolic Tesselations.

 

Some animations made with Fragmentarium