JWildfire Alternatives

JWildfire is described as 'Modern ui, soft developed and ugraded by andreas maschke for design 2d and 3d fractal flames. Very nice app and powerful' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to JWildfire for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Android apps. The best JWildfire alternative is Electric Sheep, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like JWildfire 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • Electric Sheep is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to JWildfire.

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

    • Electric Sheep is Free and Open SourceJWildfire 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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. Xaos icon

    Xaos

     9 likes

    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
     
  5. Sterling2 icon

    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

     4 likes

    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

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     

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

    • Ultra Fractal is Paid and ProprietaryJWildfire is Free and Open Source
  7. Apophysis icon

    Apophysis

     7 likes

    Apophysis is a 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].

    17 Apophysis alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. Qosmic icon

    Qosmic

     3 likes

    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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  10. Chaoscope icon

    Chaoscope

     3 likes

    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
    The application
     
  11. Oxidizer icon

    Oxidizer

     2 likes

    "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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  12. ChaosPro icon

    ChaosPro

     4 likes

    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. Mandelbulb 3D icon

    Mandelbulb 3D

     2 likes

    Mandelbulb 3D formulates a wide range of 3D fractals in a versatile rendering environment. Windows, Linux, and Mac versions. Free software application.

    3 Mandelbulb 3D alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Wine
     
  14. fractal.parts icon

    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 (MIT)

    Platforms

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

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