Fractal Explorer: Deep Zoom

Fractal Explorer draws the Mandelbrot set, and four of its stranger relatives, with the whole power of your device behind it. Pinch, drag and rotate the way you would a photo. The image sharpens as you hold still and keeps up while you move. Zoom until the arithmetic runs out Ordinary fractal apps stop at about a million times magnification, where simple math gives up and the picture turns to mush. This one keeps going, past a million trillion trillion times: a grain of sand held against the visible universe. You can keep going down, and there is always more. Fly Press Fly and the view falls for as long as you let it. Drag to steer while it goes: you are looking for somewhere, not watching a video. Or choose a bookmark and fly there instead, and the app takes you from the widest view down to a location thirty digits deep, through every scale on the way. Somewhere to start Eleven…