XaoS

XaoS

XaoS (pronounced chaos) is a realtime interactive fractal zoomer. This means that it lets you zoom smoothly into any place in the fractal you choose without the long calculation required by other fractal generators. It has many other features too, like different fractal types, autopilot, special coloring modes, random palette generation, color cycling, etc.

XaoS (since version 4.3, September 2023) is available as a full-featured web application as well. You can try it at xaos.app. Also, you can try a simplified version of the XaoS zooming algorithm online using XaoS.js.

XaoS is based on Qt, and has been tested on Windows, Mac and Linux. It should also work on any other platform supporting Qt Widgets, like the BSDs.

• Original authors: Jan Hubička and Thomas Marsh.
• Current maintainers: J.B. Langston and Zoltán Kovács.
• See CREDITS for a complete list of contributors.

Project Resources

• GitHub Repo
• Binary Releases
• Documentation
• Issue Tracker
• XaoS website
• Users' Google Group