Watch the visualizer
Animated Julia, Mandelbrot, Newton, Mandelbulb and other fractals with colour palettes and generated ambient audio. It runs full screen and can be installed as an app.
Open the visualizerWhat you can do here
Explore one fractal in depth
Each explorer focuses on a single fractal with its own controls, presets and explanations: from Mandelbrot deep zoom to ray-marched 3D Mandelbulbs.
Start with Mandelbrot Deep ZoomLearn the mathematics
Plain-language guides explain where each fractal comes from, what its parameters do and how it is rendered in the browser.
Browse the galleryHow it works
Every image is calculated in your browser with WebGL, and the deep zoom explorer can also use WebGPU. Deep zoom keeps exact decimal coordinates and high-precision reference orbits, so it can go far beyond ordinary 64-bit numbers. How deep zoom works explains the method, and 3D fractal rendering techniques covers ray marching and distance estimation.
Support development
If you enjoy Synaptic Spiral, buy me a beer, or send a message about what you liked or what you didn't.
Buy me a beer dylan@synapticspiral.nz
Other tools I've made
- SpectrShare: privately share files directly between browsers using WebRTC.
- Private Video Converter: convert, trim and redact videos in your browser.
Credits
The deep zoom locations come from the rust-fractal-core project (GPL-3.0). Made with ♥ and mathematics.