Powerful Random Fractal Generation

For many of you, this is the heart of Fractal Architect, rolling up beautiful random fractals. The sheer ease and power of this random fractal generator gives you a great starting point for finding beautiful images.

Fractal Architect has a simple, yet powerful tool, for creating very high quality random fractals. With most products, the random fractals are usually just garbage. But FA promotes the tenet of: Random - with Control. You can create some very nice fractals without any effort.

Most of the fractals on this website were generated using Fractal Architect's "Random - yet with Control" generator.

Its random generation gives you a lot of control over the most important parameters. Once you find some good looking fractals, you can

1. Open the Quicklook view to get a closer look at the fractal.
2. Open the fractal in a Preview window, which allows you to make your own changes using Triangle & Color Gradient editors.
3. Open a Variant creator panel, to see if you can improve on the fractal's appearance.
4. Save the fractal to disk.

Make New - Random Fractal Generator Panel

The just opened Make New random fractal generation panel. Click on the Roll Dice button to create another batch.

The Opened Control Panel

Click on the Random Generation Preferences button to open the Generator's Control panel.

The set of controls allows you to select:

1. Current Variation Set (see Variation Sets)
2. Sets of variations that will be used - Pre, Normal, Post, Linked, & Final Transform
3. Favorite Variation Blends (that creates nice fractals)
4. Fractal Symmetry
5. Aspect ratio
6. Background Color
7. Number of Random Transforms in the fractal + Additional Linked Transforms
8. Number of Variations per Transform
9. Fractal filter settings

The settings are sticky and saved as Preferences.

Transforms determine the fractal's appearance. The variation types create the basic shapes for each transform. The heart of the random fractal generator is the creation of a set of randomized transforms whose basic shapes are determined by the choice of variations.

Pre/Post/Normal transforms, linked transforms, and final transforms are the basic building blocks for creating beautiful interesting fractals.
Fractal artistry is the patient, trial and error process of playing with these building blocks and trying different alternative settings and seeing what pops out.

Fractal Architect 3D allows you to choose different variations for all 3 classes of transforms. Fractal Architect 2 does not. The flexibility of FA 3D allows for consistently more interesting random fractals.

Favorites allow you to save these variation choices that consistently create great fractals. These favorites are great way to maximize the quality of fractals you can find.

Fractal Stash

The Stash is a place to temporarily put your Favorites. The Stash can be saved to a new file.