Fractal Sound Explorer
A downloadable tool for Windows
Turn fractals into musical instruments or just explore the intricate and complex structures with this simple tool. By converting the fractal orbits to sound waves, many interesting effects can be achieved, which can be used for sound effects in your game. A better explanation about what this tool does and how it works can be found here:
Notes
The fractals are designed to run in real time on a GPU. If the program is going too slow, you can simply shrink the size of the window to make it run faster. The rendering is also designed to increase the image quality over time. So keep still for a bit before taking screenshots to get higher quality.
Controls
- H - Toggle Help Menu
- Left Mouse - Click or drag to hear orbits
- Middle Mouse - Drag to pan view
- Right Mouse - Stop orbit and sound
- Scroll Wheel - Zoom in and out
- D - Toggle Audio Dampening
- C - Toggle Color
- F11 - Toggle Fullscreen
- S - Save Snapshot
- R - Reset View
- J - Hold down, move mouse, and release to make Julia sets. Press again to switch back.
- 1 - Mandelbrot Set
- 2 - Burning Ship
- 3 - Feather Fractal
- 4 - SFX Fractal
- 5 - Hénon Map
- 6 - Duffing Map
- 7 - Ikeda Map
- 8 - Chirikov Map
Source Code
Source code is MIT licenced and available on my GitHub:
https://github.com/HackerPoet/FractalSoundExplorer
Download
Click download now to get access to the following files:
Comments
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Bro why my new fractal ikeda map 2.0 show wrong orbit
i call it "A Tear In The Fabric Of Reality"
i have a new fractal lol
I think I found hidden window 11 in duffing map julia set
Is this safe to use and run?I got the protected your PC pop up
It is safe to run, Windows only does that because: It doesn't know alot about it, READ MORE NEXT TIME!!!!
codeparade can you add new fractals?
Awesome! I'd also like there to be a menu for making fractals other than julia sets, can u add that pls?
Satan summoner 2000
this is very nice
I found u CodeParade
Could one procure this on MacOS? I really want to try all of this out, but the restrictions of my shitty laptop are certainly frustrating.
is it possible for music plugin (vst) ?
I can hear pitches that sound like an old Text-to-Speech voice using the SFX Fractal. Really cool btw.
fractal funnies
mmm wavy
portal to hell
baguette de francais
me when croasidisadnant
hon hon hon
heh
that's impressive
cool program
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is there a way to change how many iterations the equations use for a more detailed set? my gpu is pretty good and i think it can easily handle it
How come some fractals make certain nightmare fuel sounds?
because
Yes
God bless you, im really happy to have a tool like this.
I zoomed out for a bit...
WHAT
Why is this so laggy?
In programs like this, lag usually comes from an insufficient graphics card, but it might be something else.
I don't have a Graphics Card. I use an Onboard GPU.
Does anyone know how to make custom fractals sounbd like what they actualy are? I've figured out how to display custom fractals but not how to hear their sound. All I here is the sound from the fractal I replaced it with. Here are some cool fractal images I made with custom fractals (that I so much want to hear)
You will also need to recompile the source code with your custom formula. In main.cpp there's a comment "//All fractal equations" and under it you can add yours or modify an existing one depending on what you did.
i dont know how to use that
Hello! I name-dropped this in the description for SYNTH jam. It would be cool to see more projects like this on itch.
The Ikeda map is a "8-bit computer tape sound emulator"
thakn you
tweaked the settings a bit, Having some real nice fun here.
this took me 2 hours to figure out but it was worth it. pretty impressive for a person who only knows ruby right?
i have the jux on fractal
you no have jux
Where are the screenshots saved?
in the same files you acivate the app in
Sound does not work.
It does work, your machine may be non-standard / out of date. What what hardware are you using? Maybe they can investigate it to add support for your hardware
Ideapad 3
very cool and insightful!
really cool
Has anybody tried images from the so called phenomenon Crop Circles. I would like to play with them but I do not have a powerful PC with a dedicated GPU atm. What are the system requirements for this software?
The Chirikov Map is so cool I wonder why it sounds like a different instrument
Sorry dude, I don't have any money or an allowance.
you dont need to pay just click "no thanks please take me to the downloads"
When I downloaded this and tried to open it, it just said that it was at high risk and a dangerous file even though I want to use it :(
Use it anyway, it is perfectly safe.
Click more info, then run anyway.
Oh ok thanks :)
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