Mandelbulber

In summary, Mandelbulber generates three-dimensional fractals.

Explore trigonometric, hyper-complex, Mandelbox, IFS, and many other 3D fractals.

Render with a great palette of customizable materials to create stunning images and videos.

The possibilities are literally infinite!

Mandelbulber v2 is new line of this application. It was rewritten from scratch with new Qt based interface.

Old Mandelbulber is still available in Files section.

Features

Rendering of trigonometric, hypercomplex, mandelbox, IFS and many other 3D fractals
complex 3D ray-traced shading: hard shadows, ambient occlusion, depth of field, translucency & refraction, etc.
rich GUI in Qt 5 environment
unlimited image resolution on 64-bit systems
runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OS
simple 3D navigator
key-frame animation of all parameters
OpenCL support
image gallery: http://krzysztofmarczak.deviantart.com/gallery/
forum: https://fractalforums.org/mandelbulber/14
source code in git repository: https://github.com/buddhi1980/mandelbulber2

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License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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fractal-lover Posted 2025-10-06

Awesome project!
mansatora369 Posted 2023-07-30

Tried to run the program on my macOS but I couldn't install it on my software. makes me really disappointed on the whole flow of motion... Do I have to crave money to buy myself a descent computer I don't understand for money I don't have at all to get my fractal going???
pixlab Posted 2023-01-22

Wow! Easy to learn, easy to compile (I'm on MX Linux and Ubuntu-MATE), the doc is well written. But more than that, it is very user friendly, such a pleasure to learn it, and the outcome images are just incredible. Thank you so much developer!
s-r-grass Posted 2020-08-11

Thanks for a great program under a free open source license!
brennshelli Posted 2018-08-14

Very impressive app. We all know about Mandelbrot fractals in 2D. But in 3D they are stunning! Note, the program is cross-platform (not Windows only).

Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Linux, Mac, MinGW/MSYS2, Windows

Intended Audience

End Users/Desktop

User Interface

Programming Language

C++

Related Categories

C++ 3D Rendering Software

Registered

2010-02-04

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