About GNU XaoS
An interactive fractal zoomer. It allows the user to continuously to zoom in or out of a fractal in a fluid, continuous motion. This capability makes XaoS great for exploring fractals, and it’s just plain fun!

XaoS can display many different fractal types, including Mandelbrot, Barnsley, Newton, Phoenix, and many more. Fractals can be rendered using various coloring methods and planes for an almost endless variety of images. XaoS also supports switching between Julia and Mandelbrot sets for each formula.

XaoS includes many animated tutorials that make learning about fractals fun and easy. These tutorials are also a great introduction to all of XaoS’s features.

XaoS is free software, licensed under the GPL. It was originally written by Thomas Marsh and Jan Hubicka, and it is currently maintained by Zoltan Kovacs. Countless other improvements have been contributed by volunteers around the world. Because it’s free software, anyone can help improve XaoS.

What’s New in this Version
- This is a huge release for Mac users. The Mac user interface has been completely rewritten in Cocoa and improved in a number of ways: Standard Aqua dialog boxes instead of the strange-looking Unixy things in previous versions. Fields in dialog boxes now support cut and paste as you would expect; Pop-up menus are now displayed using standard Aqua menus
- Menu bar in full-screen mode is now the standard Mac OS X menu bar. It automatically slides into view when you move your mouse to the top of the screen and slides out when you move away from it.
- Many more enhancements.