Mandelnaut is the ultimate 1990s poster shop spinner, generating beautiful images of fractals with a huge array of options and settings and outputting images at custom dimensions.

Making fractal wallpapers: rendering escape-time fractals, finding beautiful views, and teaching models to judge them

There are Mandelbrots, Multibrots, Julias, and Phoenixes to explore and zoom around, 13 rendering modes, and hundreds of color schemes organized by hue and various pallette cycling knobs and dials on top. — Read the rest

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Book of Shapes [via] is a collection of minimalist generative SVG patterns created by Nikolaj Sokolowski. Beautiful and elaborate, yet each defined by a few lines of code, they can be customized for use on the web or in print. — Read the rest

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DLSS 5 is Nvidia's AI-powered tech for dynamically repainting video game scenes in real-time, with more realistic lighting, textures and geometry. Controversial enough on recent games, where it succeeds on a technical level, the real fun is to be had applying it to old ones. — Read the rest

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