XaoS

XaoS is an interactive fractal zoomer program. It allows the user to continuously zoom in or out of a fractal in real-time.

XaoS is licenced under GPL. The program is cross-platform, and is available for a variety of operating systems, including GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS and others.

XaoS can show the Mandelbrot set (power 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6), the Octo fractal, three types of Barnsley's fractals, the Newton fractal (order 3 and 4), Phoenix fractal and Magnet (1 and 2). XaoS can display Julia sets from selected fractal parts. Xaos also allows you to enter your own custom formulas.

XaoS is capable of displaying fractals as ASCII art using AAlib, which, in combination with being built on freely available gnu tools, allows it to run almost anywhere.

An interactive help and an animated introduction to fractals is given in this software. The introduction is in 10 chapters dealing with different formulas presented in the software and their features.