Mandelbulber2

Mandelbulber2 creatively generates three-dimensional fractals.

Explore trigonometric, hyper-complex, Mandelbox, IFS, and many other 3D fractals.

Render with a great palette of customizable materials to create stunning images and videos.

Features:

High-Performance computing with multiple graphics accelerator cards (multi-GPU support via OpenCL)

Mathematical Models and Monte Carlo Algorithms for photo-realistic scenes

Enlightening Documentation

Renders trigonometric, hyper-complex, Mandelbox, IFS, and many other 3D fractals

Complex 3D raymarching: hard shadows, ambient occlusion, depth of field, translucency and refraction, etc.

Rich GUI in Qt 5 environment

Unlimited image resolution on 64-bit systems

Program developed for ARM (experimental), x86 and x64 CPUs (Linux, Windows, macOS)

Simple 3D navigator

Distributed Network Rendering

Key-frame animation for all parameters with different interpolations

Material management

Texture mapping (color, luminosity, diffusion, normal maps, displacement)

Exporting of 3D objects

Rendering queue

Command line interface for headless systems