Ran across a new fractal program for Macintosh - FractalWorks. It's still in beta, and the author seeks feedback from users. It's an interesting program to toy around with. It will generate traditional 2d views, but it really shines in creating 3D view - including stereo images (you know, to view with the red/bluegreen stereo glasses). I'd encourage you Mac users to download and try it out.

http://web.mac.com/dchampney/Site/FractalWorks.html

It requires Mac OSX 10.4 or later. I'm running Snow Leopard (10.6) and it works fine. It's multithreaded and uses all available CPU cores, so the rendering time on my Core 2 Duo is amazingly swift. 3D views in real time.

This is an image generated from the program.

You can join Duncan (the application's developer) in a FractalWorks forum on Flickr...

http://www.flickr.com/groups/629205@N21/

Those look like some great fractals there Nathan. I know Mac users are really going to celebrate.

I think you're right. Especially since Snow Leopard broke Xaos - it crashes on startup every time.

Thank you. I have been thinking about giving fractals a try. Now I can. :)