Mandelbrot [ – ]


Demigods
re im
zoom iter render
hover the fractal

Mandelbrot Explorer

The set of complex numbers c for which z → z² + c stays bounded from z = 0. Points outside are shaded by how fast they escape, smoothed to a continuous value so the bands have no stair-steps.

Mouse & touch

dragpan
wheel / pinchzoom at the pointer
double-clickzoom in 3× (shift: zoom out)
shift + dragzoom to a box
hoverpreview the Julia set for that point

Keyboard

+ -zoom in / out
pan (hold shift for a big step)
[ ]halve / double max iterations
Pnext palette
J / Otoggle Julia inset / orbit trace
S / Csave PNG / copy link
Rreset view
Ffullscreen
H or ?this panel

Notes

The view is stored in the URL, so any link you copy reopens exactly this frame. Rendering is split across web workers with a coarse-to-fine pass, and iteration counts are cached so palette changes recolor without recomputing.

Arithmetic is IEEE double precision, which runs out at roughly 1013× zoom. The readout turns magenta as pixels stop being distinguishable.