Author Archives: georgklein

There used to be two version of this app – Fractile which was ad-supported, and Fractile Plus which was for sale. No more: The ad-supported version has been retired, and Fractile Plus is now available for free. Enjoy! I’d also … Continue reading →

This includes a color picker to select from 15 color palettes; also textures are dithered to reduce the 16bpp banding.

Here’s a quick peek at the upcoming color picker – will be submitted to Apple as part of the v2.2 update later this week. Update: Spoke too soon – this is delayed as I’m waiting for permission to use some … Continue reading →

Next version will let you change the color palette, although probably from a fixed list of entries rather than having some palette editor. If you have a color scheme you’re particularly fond of, please post screenshots / pics and I’ll … Continue reading →

Updates to both Fractile and Fractile Plus got submitted to Apple today. v2.0 includes the Julia set viewer with live preview, and the free version gets image saving too. Expect to see these in the app store in 10 days. … Continue reading →

The Julia set implementation is progressing well – it’ll probably be pushed to the app store in about a week or so, pending final tweaking of the UI and squishing of a few bugs.

This will be the first paid-for, no-ad release. Features as described below: no Julia set yet, but high-res screenshots. If past performance is anything to go by it should appear end of the week or early next week. Edit: Now … Continue reading →

Thanks for the votes on the sidebar – a Julia set function will be implemented as soon as I can work out a decent user interface. Meanwhile, the most-emailed requests were to provide an ad-free version and to allow the … Continue reading →

1. Go ahead and set max iterations to 4096. A lot of the good stuff is not there at the default of 256, and I’ll probably just make 4096 the default in future releases. If you find it slow: just … Continue reading →

BBC News: ‘Fractal’ mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot dies aged 85.