Mandelbrot Fractal is an open-source fractal generator with a difference: its spectacular images are produced using pure JavaScript, no external libraries or other oddball dependencies involved. This makes for a very simple structure, essentially just an index.html with a supporting app.css and two .js files. The controls are straightforward, too, working much like any other Mandelbrot explorer you’ve ever used: click Launch to generate the starting image, then click any point on the screen to zoom in and redraw. If you’ve found something interesting, right-clicking displays an option to save the current view as an image. There are also hotkeys… [Continue Reading]