Bloom. vs Fractal Explorer

Bloom is an app that generates computational art, which means images are created by algorithms rather than by hand, but users can customize parameters to influence the results. In Bloom, textures can be generated so that every pixel has a unique color. Bloom is available for macOS and iOS, in a virtually identical experience. To give every pixel in an N×N grid its own unique RGB color, we need enough color variations. With M shades per color channel (red, green, blue), we get M³ total colors. So we choose M so that M³ matches the number of pixels, N²: N² = M³ This algorithm produces endlessly varied patterns that can be applied to a variety of 3D shapes. Feature overview: • Self-generating, pseudo-random process creates unique patterns of a rainbow of colors. • 1000x1000 dimension color profusions consisting of one million different colored pixels, with option of more or less. • Apply generated images, or any other image, as textures on 3D shapes - sphere, cube, heart and more. • Listen to our own in-house music as you watch and wait. Many 3D output options, including texture filters, shape rotation, material and lighting properties. A presets menu provides you with several sets of parameter values that you can start with and then tweak further. Use the Defaults menu item to reset all parameters to the state of Bloom on first launch. Options can be saved to and reloaded from Bloom Documents, using the Share menu. Bloom Documents are created using the Share menu item Save Bloom Sphere Document, and reloaded using the Share menu item Load Bloom Document. Bloom Documents support Quick Look Thumbnails. Quick Look thumbnails are small preview images that the operating system generates for files so you can see what’s inside without opening them. For example, when you browse your files in Finder, each Bloom Document or image may have a tiny preview showing the content or a miniature version of the 3D shape and texture. This makes it easier to identify files at a glance and quickly find what you’re looking for. Available shape geometries: sphere, torus, cube, cylinder, plane, capsule, pyramid, star, trefoil knot, exclamation heart and heart. A Music Manager enables listening to an assortment of music tracks while you wait and watch the art generate.

Fractal Explorer draws the Mandelbrot set, and four of its stranger relatives, with the whole power of your device behind it. Pinch, drag and rotate the way you would a photo. The image sharpens as you hold still and keeps up while you move. Zoom until the arithmetic runs out Ordinary fractal apps stop at about a million times magnification, where simple math gives up and the picture turns to mush. This one keeps going, past a million trillion trillion times: a grain of sand held against the visible universe. You can keep going down, and there is always more. Fly Press Fly and the view falls for as long as you let it. Drag to steer while it goes: you are looking for somewhere, not watching a video. Or choose a bookmark and fly there instead, and the app takes you from the widest view down to a location thirty digits deep, through every scale on the way. Somewhere to start Eleven landmarks come with the app, and they are the places the pictures come from: Seahorse Valley, Elephant Valley, the Misiurewicz point at the tip of the antenna, a satellite copy of the whole set buried in its own filaments, Douady's Rabbit, the Dendrite, the San Marco Dragon. Two are deep enough to be worth the trip on their own. Fly to any of them and watch how far down it is. Five families, both directions Mandelbrot, Burning Ship, Tricorn, Celtic and Perpendicular, at powers 2 through 6. Every one of them can be read the other way round as a Julia set, and the way to find a good one is to press and hold on a spot in the main image. The Julia that belongs to that point appears in place. The interesting constants sit on a boundary nobody can recite from memory, so pointing at it is the feature. Color is a separate question from shape Nine palettes and four coloring modes: smooth iteration, distance estimate, binary decomposition, and a shaded blend of the first two. Changing any of them recolors what is already on screen instantly, even thirty digits deep, so you can try every look at a location without waiting for it to be computed again. Gamma, contrast, palette repeat, the interior color and a slow automatic cycle are all there to be pushed around. Bookmarks that follow you Bookmark anything worth returning to. The location is saved at full precision, along with the colors you were using when you found it, and your bookmarks turn up on your other devices through your own iCloud account. The app reopens where you left it. No accounts, no subscription, no ads, no tracking. Every pixel is computed on your device.