Fast Fractal

Absolutely excellent app, but the one thing I would like is a zoom that doesn't freeze the second you take your hand off the screen. Everything else you can see is in the other reviews.

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You can zoom a few times and then it just hits a hard stop and refuses to zoom further or render additional detail. Fractal explorers are fun for hours when you can keep going and going and get into weird edge detail, and this app has neither of those things. It only offers a Mandelbrot set, which despite being my favorite is still only one of the many fun fractal explorations. It's no faster than Fractint was back in the 486 days despite the author's claims above. To add insult to injury it pops up an annoying ad every time you open it. This app was deleted within 2 minutes, as I'd seen all it had to offer, and it wasn't much.

The reviewers for the app who are saying you can only zoom in so far before the iterations stop forgot to look in the settings. You can control the number of iterations, the zoom and much more. It just slows down the rendering, as you'd expect. Also worth noting, for those of us with large tablets, the screenshots are misleading; the app DOES provide landscape view (aka widescreen).

By default, the app sacrifices some of the finer intricacies for extremely fast rendering. However, you can increase the number of iterations in the advanced settings, making it far more useful.

Having written several Mandelbrot programs, I am blown away by the speed and responsiveness of this one. You can go deeper by increasing the iteration count on the Advanced menu.