FractRoam

Name: FractRoam
Price: 0.99 USD
Rating: 4.3 (75 reviews)
Author: Kaolin Fire

experience the beauty of chaos

$0.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

75 Ratings
Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Entertainment
Developer

Kaolin Fire
Language

EN
English
Size

2.2
MB

FractRoam is a real-time explorer for the Mandelbrot and Julia sets — and its heart is the autopilot. Press play and let it roam: FractRoam continuously seeks out the most visually interesting regions of the fractal and glides you through them, an endless, ever-changing tour you can simply sit back and watch. Want to take the wheel? Pinch and drag to wander on your own, and recolor the whole scene with a tap. Everything is drawn pixel-by-pixel on your device's GPU, in real time. FEATURES • Roam autopilot — hit play and drift through a continuous, auto-discovered tour of the fractal • Real-time Mandelbrot and Julia set rendering, GPU-accelerated and smooth • Pinch and pan to explore yourself, or hand it back to the autopilot anytime • Color moods — six hand-tuned palettes plus animated color cycling • Share any view — a picture plus a link that reopens the exact same spot • Fully offline — no account, no ads, no data collection • A calm, full-screen interface — just you and the fractal Whether you want something mesmerizing to get lost in, a generative-art source for textures and wallpapers, or a hands-on way to explore the math of self-similarity, FractRoam turns the Mandelbrot and Julia sets into something alive. There's a matching macOS screensaver too — find it at fractroam.com.

Ratings & Reviews

4.3

out of 5

75 Ratings

Portrait mode is NOT standard
11/27/2018
PhelineCat
Donlively said this “forces ... into landscape”, stating it couldn’t be used in “standard” mode, ie portrait. I don’t see a problem reorienting to portrait mode to use this- its default landscape orients my phone upside down, to my preference so I reorient anyway. Viewing either mode as standard ignores the reality that using either mode consistently can result in real injury. I have bone spurs on my left thumb (real ones) and undx injury to my right wrist that get worse when forced to use only portrait mode. Devs should be aware of this; we’ve been through epidemics of injury caused by poor tech design and people suffer (not as badly as Tyson chicken processors). I use external keyboards for my phone- yes, iPad keyboards work even if the phone is too small for the case- and it helps but we need more conscious design. Fractals: In elementary school I wasn’t taught to see a subject and draw; instead I was told “this is how you draw a cat, a chair, a tree... ”. Dumb thing to do; I finally learned to see/draw as an adult. I was “taught” to draw trees as fractals- all well and good if you want to draw a tree as a fractal but not any real tree. Fractals may come into play on a cellular level of a tree but not so much on the gross visual level.
Portrait mode is NOT standard
11/27/2018
PhelineCat

Donlively said this “forces ... into landscape”, stating it couldn’t be used in “standard” mode, ie portrait. I don’t see a problem reorienting to portrait mode to use this- its default landscape orients my phone upside down, to my preference so I reorient anyway. Viewing either mode as standard ignores the reality that using either mode consistently can result in real injury. I have bone spurs on my left thumb (real ones) and undx injury to my right wrist that get worse when forced to use only portrait mode. Devs should be aware of this; we’ve been through epidemics of injury caused by poor tech design and people suffer (not as badly as Tyson chicken processors). I use external keyboards for my phone- yes, iPad keyboards work even if the phone is too small for the case- and it helps but we need more conscious design. Fractals: In elementary school I wasn’t taught to see a subject and draw; instead I was told “this is how you draw a cat, a chair, a tree... ”. Dumb thing to do; I finally learned to see/draw as an adult. I was “taught” to draw trees as fractals- all well and good if you want to draw a tree as a fractal but not any real tree. Fractals may come into play on a cellular level of a tree but not so much on the gross visual level.
App Creator
11/27/2020
9Doubter
i always enjoy Apps of this nature. Sometimes just playing around in this App, ‘something’ in an image, triggers an experience 🤔. Good thing.😀 i don’t know (or care) what the previous post (the cat karen🥸),’problems’ are. But delete👎🏾 (imho) that post. Negativity😾 drips from what turns out to be a good👍🏻👍👍🏽 App.
App Creator
11/27/2020
9Doubter

i always enjoy Apps of this nature. Sometimes just playing around in this App, ‘something’ in an image, triggers an experience 🤔. Good thing.😀 i don’t know (or care) what the previous post (the cat karen🥸),’problems’ are. But delete👎🏾 (imho) that post. Negativity😾 drips from what turns out to be a good👍🏻👍👍🏽 App.
Nice fractal image generator
03/30/2016
Captain sparow
Love fractal images. They've always interested me. Nice range of options, recommend you zoom ALL the way in so you can the crazy level of detail. Pretty sweet!
Nice fractal image generator
03/30/2016
Captain sparow

Love fractal images. They've always interested me. Nice range of options, recommend you zoom ALL the way in so you can the crazy level of detail. Pretty sweet!
Not worth 99cents USA
08/20/2018
donllively
This is limited entertaining and learning.First, it forces the user to landscape mode. Why? It serves no good purpose what could not be accomplished in standard display.Second, though the title of the app states its purpose the immersion is limited: start, stop, pinch, start, stop .... One really has little control of what is generated and no options I could find at the time of my using to manipulate the generation.A dollar less a penny wasted.
Not worth 99cents USA
08/20/2018
donllively

This is limited entertaining and learning.First, it forces the user to landscape mode. Why? It serves no good purpose what could not be accomplished in standard display.Second, though the title of the app states its purpose the immersion is limited: start, stop, pinch, start, stop .... One really has little control of what is generated and no options I could find at the time of my using to manipulate the generation.A dollar less a penny wasted.

FractRoam now fits your iPad. Hold the iPad any way you like — the fractal comes with you, upright and edge to edge, keeping exactly the view you were looking at. Resize the window and it simply reframes; nothing stretches, nothing jumps. • Every iPad orientation, plus resizable windows — no more letterboxing • Rotating or resizing holds your place: same centre, same depth • Pan and pinch stay locked to your fingers however you're holding it Set it roaming and put it down anywhere.

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Information

Seller: Kaolin Fire
Size: 2.2 MB
Category: Entertainment
Compatibility: Requires iOS 12.0 or later.

iPhone
Requires iOS 12.0 or later.

iPad
Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.

iPod touch
Requires iOS 12.0 or later.

Mac
Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.

Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages: English
Age Rating: 4+

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