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- Overview
Fractal Wallpaper is a cool program that creates beautiful fractals in real time and sets them as your wallpaper. You can run the program and let it create amazing pictures in time intervals you define. All the fractals that the program creates are made in real time and are totally unique - the images are created on your computer. Fractal wallpaper is completely free.
- Using Fractal Wallpaper
Using Fractal Wallpaper is very simple; The program stays on the task bar and every X minutes that you define, it creates a new random wallpaper.You can create a wallpaper instantly by choosing the "Create a Wallpaper Now!" option from the right click menu. If you don't want the program to create a new wallpaper every time, you can quit the program and leave the last wallpaper on.
Once an image was created it is saved at the program's directory as a Bitmap image file; You can copy it and use it as you like...
- Fractal Wallpaper Settings
To setup Fractal Wallpaper, right click on the task bar icon and choose Settings, or double click on the task bar icon.
- Image Size - You can setup the size of the wallpaper. It can be either full screen image, half and quarter of the size of your desktop.
- Fractal Type - You can decide the type of fractal the program creates. It can be a random decision between Mandelbrot and Julia, or a specific set (Mandelbrot or Julia).
- Time Interval - You can set the time interval before the next image will be created. The time interval is in minutes and it can be ranged from 1 minute to 1440 (24 hours).
- Start Fractal Wallpaper at Windows Startup - If you want Fractal Wallpaper to start every time windows start, just check this check box and the program will auto-launch with windows.
- Exiting Fractal Wallpaper
If you want to quit Fractal Wallpaper, right click on the icon in the tray bar and choose Exit.
- About Mandelbrot and Julia Fractals
fractal - A fractal is a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be subdivided in parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a smaller copy of the whole. Fractals are generally self-similar (bits look like the whole) and independent of scale (they look similar, no matter how close you zoom in). Fractals also describe many real-world objects that do not have simple geometric shapes, such as clouds, mountains, turbulence, and coastlines.
Benoit Mandelbrot - /ben'wa man'dl-bro/ Benoit B. Mandelbrot. The IBM scientist who wrote several original books on fractals and gave his name to the set he discovered, the Mandelbrot set and coined the term "fractal" in 1975 from the Latin fractus or "to break".
Mandelbrot set - (After its discoverer, Benoit Mandelbrot) The set of all complex numbers c such that
| z[N] | < 2
for arbitrarily large values of N, where
z[0] = 0 z[n+1] = z[n]^2 + c
The Mandelbrot set is usually displayed as an Argand diagram, giving each point a colour which depends on the largest N for which | z[N] | < 2, up to some maximum N which is used for the points in the set (for which N is infinite). These points are traditionally coloured black.
The Mandelbrot set is the best known example of a fractal - it includes smaller versions of itself which can be explored to arbitrary levels of detail.
You can read more about Mandelbrot set here.
Julia sets - described by Gaston Julia, are fractal shapes defined on the complex number plane. Given two complex numbers, c and z0, we define the following recursion:
zn+1 = zn2 + c
You can read more about Julia set here.
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