The Paul Carlson Fractal Museum

South Wing: First Gallery of Miscellaneous Fractals

The fractals in this section were produced using a variety of equations and rendering methods. Many of the fractals were rendered by methods utilizing one or more "orbit traps." An orbit trap is a bounded area in the complex plane of some simple shape such as a circle or square. When a point in the iteration orbit falls inside an orbit trap, the iteration loop is exited and the distance from the point to the center of the trap is used to index into two or more color ranges of the colormap.