Make yourself a Mandelbrot image

Explore yourself, into the unknown, where no one has been before and see what you can find. A never ending journey into ever more strange patterns, perhaps logical, perhaps random, somehow alive maybe. Who knows, it is for you to explore and make your assessment.

These images are simply derived from equations - just maths. This is exciting and will make you wonder. Making you wonder is the objective behind this project. Few people will do this project - so you are someone special if you try. I say, give it a go!

Suggested school project: Make a Mandelbrot image tonight: Get together with your school classmates or team of friends and put together a collection of the best images you can find.

If you enjoy this project, tell your friends about this page and get them to try it also. It is all for fun. Enjoy.

How to make your Mandelbrot image.

You need to download a computer program to your PC.

The program is freeware and is called "Mandelbrot Explorer" and used to be able to be downloaded from Tucows.

The developer is J R Oakley and you can read more about the development and the various versions of the computer program on his website here: https://www.mandel.org.uk/

When you run the program it will make images on your screen.

Save the images you create in a local directory, named for example: My_Documents/mandelbrot-images/

Now use your preferred image processing program, such as Microsoft paint.exe, to enlarge, shrink or otherwise edit and modify the image and then print it, send it to your friends, use it in your facebook, blogs, web site etc.

Read more about the complex numbers behind the mandelbrot set described here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set.

Someone has made a series of Mandlebrot images and strung them all together as frames, making a Mandelbrot video. This may be viewed in a YouTube video. Search Youtube for "https://www.youtube.com/G_GBwuYuOOs"

Mandelbrot Image - coloured waves.	Black and white waves with three eddies.
Ice crystals growing on glass ?	Ice with coloured light light behind ?
Same again but with colours altered slightly.	The black growths are source of the Mandelbrot patterns.
The result of using bright colours. .	Change the scale and zoom in or zoom out.
I wonder about making posters of this or greetings cards.	Why ?
Nice pattern, shame about the black blob !	Here comes the Mandelbrot UFO !

Since making this page in 2010, I have been given a link to a different web site: https://herring.org.uk/caching/mandel/mandelbrot.html that allows you to make images using javascript on your local PC machine. This does not involve a computer program on the server or for a program to be downloaded and run as a classic .exe program on your PC. Rather, you download the web page and the javascript that come with it runs inside your browser, such as Chrome.

Page created 7 Feb 2010, amended 10 June 2021, 23 July 2026.

Send my your images to eric@satsig.net and I will add her or on new pages.