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Hello everyone

I'd like to present my fractal application for Android phones. It's called Fractal Explorer and is available now from Android Market and AndAppStore.

The application is nowhere near as functional as desktop applications and can't produce such fantastic images, but it:
- can make use of modern smartphone CPUs and is the fastest of it's kind at the moment
- works on Android 1.5 and up
- supports zoom scale up to 2^42
- is very easy to use
- offers 11 color schemes
- can save the cool places you find
- let's you generate wallpaper for your phone

You can find more info, screenshots and example zoom slideshows on the Fractal Explorer homepage

At the moment it only supports the most widely recognizable Mandelbrot fractal and simple coloring using predefined color schemes, but more features will be added with time.

I'd very like to hear some comments and suggestions from people that love fractals. What would you like in a fractal application running on your phone?



QR code for Android Market download:

I was looking into the possibility of using OpenGL ES 2.0 for computations, but the problem is that it only supports single precision floats. Heck, now that I think about it, double precision is not enough either and I'll have too see if doing arbitrary precision math makes sense for mobile CPU (performance wise). As for Mandelbulbs, I don't think I have enough knowledge to even attempt implementing such thing. For now at least

Well, using GPU to do computations is definitely something worth looking into (and would be useful for other purposes as well), but it'll have to wait. Right now I'll concentrate on extending and polishing it little by little.

Im gonna try this one!
Wow bar code scanner for the android is so smooth, i used it to grab the QR code, Fractal Explorer downloaded just like that! I also got the laser level from tat site too!