A real-time chaos explorer built with modern JavaScript + WebGL.
Smooth deep-zoom navigation, palette play, curated presets, animated dives and tours.

🎮 Live App · 📜 Article: Unmasking Chaos · ⌨️ Controls · 🖼️ Gallery · 📖 Docs · 🗃️ Archive of older versions · 🎨 Palette editor

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Important

This is GPU-first, real-time rendering. A high-end GPU is strongly recommended for the best experience (optimal: RTX 3070 or equivalent)

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About

Synaptory Chaos Explorer is an interactive exploration and learning experience for the Mandelbrot set, its companion Julia sets, the Riemann Zeta function, and the Rössler Attractor. It is designed around one simple goal:

Make the beauty of chaos and fractal travel available for everyone to enjoy.

You can zoom, pan, rotate, recolor, take screenshots, share coordinates/links, and jump through curated presets that highlight interesting locations.

Read more in Wiki.

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Features

• Modern & responsive UI optimized for 60 FPS experience on a wide range of devices, including mobile.
• Double-double precision rendering (~10⁻¹⁵ regular zoom, up to ~10⁻³⁵ in Re=0 locations)
• Real-time exploration: zoom, pan, and rotate with mouse, keyboard, or touch
• Demo/Tour mode: Sit back and enjoy a guided tour through the fractal world
• Palette support: Multiple color schemes with optional cyclic animation
• Shareable exploration: Generate links, copy coordinates, save favorite views locally
• Controls: Mouse, keyboard, and touch — see full controls reference
• Screenshots: Clean exports with watermark coordinates

Fractal Modes

Mandelbrot Set

• Deep zoom exploration with double-double precision (up to ~10⁻³⁵)
• Two rendering modes: Perturbation and Series Approximation
• Curated views highlighting interesting locations

Julia Sets

• Interactive C parameter control via sliders
• Live Julia preview on middle-click in Mandelbrot mode
• Animated "dives" through c-parameter space

Riemann Zeta Function

• Domain coloring visualization with multiple shader modes
• Zero Tour: animated journey through critical line zeros
• Mathematical annotations (trivial zeros, pole, Basel Problem, Apéry's constant, etc.)

Rössler Attractor

• 3D chaotic system visualization
• Adjustable parameters (a, b, c coefficients)
• Phase space exploration

Check out the latest release notes.

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Try it now

Live app: https://fractal.brnka.com/

If you find something beautiful:

1. Hit C for a clean screenshot.
2. Hit Sto save it locally.
3. Hit D to copy coordinates and share it in the discussion (or anywhere you like).

or fork and deploy your own instance.