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Mandelbulber2

Free and open source 3D fractals generator

  • Desktop app
  • GUI
  • GRAPHICS
  • SCIENCE
  • Launchable
  • Same app · 2 sources
Official OARS · imported from upstream · official · May 24, 2026 description in en

Description

Mandelbulber2 creatively generates three-dimensional fractals. Explore trigonometric, hyper-complex, Mandelbox, IFS, and many other 3D fractals. Render with a great palette of customizable materials to create stunning images and videos.

Features:

High-Performance computing with multiple graphics accelerator cards (multi-GPU support via OpenCL)

Mathematical Models and Monte Carlo Algorithms for photo-realistic scenes

Enlightening Documentation

Renders trigonometric, hyper-complex, Mandelbox, IFS, and many other 3D fractals

Complex 3D raymarching: hard shadows, ambient occlusion, depth of field, translucency and refraction, etc.

Rich GUI in Qt 5 environment

Unlimited image resolution on 64-bit systems

Program developed for ARM (experimental), x86 and x64 CPUs (Linux, Windows, macOS)

Simple 3D navigator

Distributed Network Rendering

Key-frame animation for all parameters with different interpolations

Material management

Texture mapping (color, luminosity, diffusion, normal maps, displacement)

Exporting of 3D objects

Rendering queue

Command line interface for headless systems

How to run

mandelbulber2

Commands: mandelbulber2

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