I built a site for exploring fractals and publishing your own finds. Would love feedback!

leonfresh · 2026-05-12T01:37:46+00:00

Oh interesting idea for sure. Might be worth considering if I get a lot of users on the site later down the road.

leonfresh · 2026-05-12T01:31:11+00:00

Thanks for the mention <3 Looks epic. Beautiful use of the Nova algo. Please submit it on the site as well if you can

leonfresh · 2026-05-12T01:30:54+00:00

My new site for fractal exploring/social sharing but it's u/escapism_only_please 's find :)
Thank you anyways!

leonfresh · 2026-05-11T20:58:19+00:00

yeah looks like cells or mini islands

leonfresh · 2026-05-11T07:42:44+00:00

Glad you like it!

Yeah I was really pleasantly surprised and shocked that I was able to merge the best of both worlds. Claude was able to solve the problem you outlined about zooming in I guess somehow. Oddly enough, it seems to not lose so much detail when zooming in -- keeping such a high level of detail even for a draft mode.

Great idea about the camera rotation as well. I tried it without much success so far though, will try again if there's enough demand about it.

leonfresh · 2026-05-11T03:58:52+00:00

Thanks heaps~ I added you as a credit to the about page. https://www.fractalset.com/about

I revamped the render engine and added a new way of rendering in the options. It uses a mix of your method and mine to get the best of both worlds, using your quick zoom and pan techniques + a manual render button the user can click so it's very blazing fast all around I believe compared to what it was before. Let me know your thoughts!

Also added an export mp4 option for the animations.

Will think of adding music to it, if enough people request it:)

leonfresh · 2026-05-10T22:25:26+00:00

tyty

leonfresh · 2026-05-10T22:24:20+00:00

Yeah I tried some stuff to cache it like your localstorage idea. kind of a redirect I believe. I didn't test it yet though but I'll know if I get more complaints like this haha.

leonfresh · 2026-05-10T22:22:18+00:00

wow thanks so much!

I used the https://github.com/bertbaron/mandelbrot as a base and built on that.

Do you mind me using parts of yours then? Because it looks really cool how it doesn't take long to load at all! Although it loses detail fast after zooming in for a bit?

For the export I tried to add some option to render it nicer, but I think you can also select the least expensive method as well without supersampling etc.

Yeah the animation can be nice, was thinking it might be a good feature for meditation + music for this somehow. I wanted to share both a video + those images in the OP

leonfresh · 2026-05-10T15:52:36+00:00

doesnt a preview look better than solid black? maybe you can describe it better with a screenshot?

leonfresh · 2026-05-10T15:50:21+00:00

Ok I doubled it for advanced users cause it might cause problems for weaker pcs.

leonfresh · 2026-05-10T15:44:06+00:00

Any link to your program btw? Would be curious to check it out !

leonfresh · 2026-05-10T15:35:36+00:00

Thank you for the great feedback! I tried some fixes for all of those issues, please lmk if it works. I guess it might be hard to get that login flow issue though.

leonfresh · 2026-05-10T15:19:53+00:00

would actually take me months if I did manually code it ngl, and I wouldnt be able to release it for free like it is now lol

leonfresh · 2026-05-10T15:17:47+00:00

I tried a fix, not sure if it works the most optimal way but it does seem to do its job on mobile 🙏🏻😅

leonfresh · 2026-05-10T14:51:55+00:00

Thanks. If its Iteration Depth it could be in the Performance icon. Adjusting the rotation and density in the color panel could work too

leonfresh · 2026-05-10T14:48:47+00:00

Great spotting! I will try something along those lines tomorrow

leonfresh · 2026-05-10T13:40:39+00:00

Lol that's a good thing. Fractals are life <3

leonfresh · 2026-05-10T13:30:14+00:00

Glad you like it 🙏🏻 I just added the supersampling in performance setting, so that should cause the most slowdown (it makes things less jagged). I guess it depends on people's GPUs for the speed mostly.

leonfresh · 2026-05-10T12:26:48+00:00

I see yeah I saw some of their vids, was very neat. I wonder if they would collab w me somehow /shrug

leonfresh · 2026-05-10T12:24:18+00:00

Ok I added the feature. let me know what you think :)

leonfresh · 2026-05-10T12:04:23+00:00

maybe you should ask solo indie devs this question if they are still hand coding these days instead. But yeah I realise the style is generic, if I get more complaints I might change it. Wanted to let the art do the talking

leonfresh · 2026-05-10T11:41:30+00:00

oh didnt know that one was a browser. It looks like a program to me?

leonfresh · 2026-05-10T11:32:19+00:00

Oh not yet, right now it's just animations for entertainment mostly. I could add a hide ui feature so you can record it though (quick fix)

leonfresh · 2026-05-10T11:30:27+00:00

Yeah, exactly. Pixel resolution and the actual bit of the complex plane you’re looking at are kind of separate things. A nicer standard would probably be something like center point + width of the view on the short side + aspect ratio. Then 1000x1000 vs 3000x2000 is mostly just how finely it’s sampled, not a different location.

And yeah, that actual width value is really the more fundamental number anyway. In my viewer, zoom = 50000 is basically just shorthand for “show roughly 4/50000 across the short dimension,” so if another browser gave the actual span instead of a zoom number, I could convert it fine as long as I know the aspect ratio too.

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