Here you will find a list of different programs to aid in the generation of pictures associated to different dynamical processes.

Programs for PC

• dy-syst.zip This program explores Newton's method, Mandelbrot set, and Julia sets.
  
  
• XaoS is a very interesting program. It renders real time animations of close-ups in the Mandelbrot and Julia sets, as well as some other fractals. REMARKABLE. There are also implementations for Mac and RedHat.
  
  
• FRACTINT.
  A very fast, very versatile, general purpose program which generates pictures of MOST classical dynamical processes in the plane. Mandelbrot set; Julia sets of polynomials, Newton's method and entire functions; Iterated Function Systems, L-Systems, etc.
  
  
• Wolf Jung has two useful programs to study iterated quadratic polynomials.
  Mandel.exe allows the user to play with the combinatorics of the Mandelbrot and Julia sets. It can draw external rays, locate Misiurewicz points and renormalize. The new version is available for Linux/Unix, Mac, and MS-Windows (PC).
  Logistic.exe finds yperbolic intervals in the parameter line and draws cobweb graphs of individual polynomials.
  
  
• AROS Fractals is the fastest program to draw the classical Mandelbrot and quadratic Julia sets.
  However, it does not have many tools available.
  
  
• PHASER Phaser has been designed to meet the needs of a wide variety of users whether they be general chaos enthusiasts, students, instructors, or researchers. Written in pure Java, Phaser can be used on multiple platforms, or to share projects freely across platforms.

Programs for Mac

• XaoS. See above.
  
  
• Dynamical Systems page at Cornell has several programs to display Henon maps and parameter space. They have also a program that produces matings of polynomial Julia sets.
  
  
• iDynamics and several other programs created by Mitsuhiro Shishikura. Some allow you to create movies of julia sets changing with parameter and zooms of the Mandelbrot set.
  
  
• AROS Fractals also has a version for Macintosh (see above).
  
  
• PHASER See above.
  

Programs for Unix

• XaoS has a RedHat platform. See above.
  
  
• DSTool is a program that uses an XWindow interface to aid in the study of dynamical systems. Originally written at Cornell by Mark Myers, Rick Wicklin and Patrick Worfolk, it is based on the program kaos, written by S. Kim and J. Guckenheimer.
  
  
• Curtis McMullen has several programs that help draw trajectories on a K3 surface, kleinian groups and Julia sets; along with some other applications.
  
  
• Fractal Studio
  Mandelbrot set program; handles distributed computing
  
  
• Xmountains
  An X11-based fractal landscape generator
  
  
• Lyapunov Generates PGM Lyapunov exponent images
  
  
• PHASER See above.
  

Programs for MS Dos

• DEEPZOOM A high-precision Mandelbrot program for displaying highly zoomed fractals
  
  
• Fractal WitchCraft A very fast fractal design program
  
  
  
• CAL Generates more than 15 types of fractals including Mandelbrot, Lyapunov, IFS, user-defined formulas,
  logistic equation, and quaternion Julia sets
  
  
  
• Displays orbits of Mandelbrot mapping
  
  

Programs for Linux(X Windows>

• Xmntns and Xlmntn Generate fractal mountains
  
  
• Xfroot: generates a fractal root window.
  Xmartin: generates a Martin hopalong root window
  Xmandel: generates Mandelbrot/Julia sets
  All of them can be found here
  
  
• Lyap: generates Lyapunov exponent images. Ftp from:
  ftp.uu.net:/usenet/comp.sources.x/volume17/lyapunov-xlib
  
  
• Spider Uses Thurston's algorithm for computing postcritically finite polynomials,
  draws Mandelbrot and Julia sets using the Koebe algorithm, and draws Julia set external angles
  
  
• Xfractal Fractal drawing program
  
  
• PHASER See above.
  

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