Although in it’s most common form the Barnsley fractal represents the form of a plant, or fern, the fractal is much more complex than that and can be used to create a variety of generative art for various means including graphic design, motion graphics and illustration.

This Barnsley fractal fern plugin for Adobe Photoshop is a powerful implementation of the algorithm that unleashes the fractal’s full potential. Its most impressive feature is user-configurable supersampling for clean, antialiased output. All the fractal’s coefficients are fully adjustable thus providing a virtually unlimited number of possible forms.

The shift feature provides controls for asymmetry while the scale feature modifies sizing.

Barnsley Fern Fractal provides file saving and loading so you can save any fractal you create, as well as random fractal generation.

Finally, the plugin provides sampling multipliers for working with high resolution imagery.

Barnsley Fern Fractal is 100% multi-threaded capable of using an unlimited number of cores for ultimate speed.

Iterations: Defines the maximum number of cycles to compute. The more iterations performed, the more complete the final image will be, but the longer the computation. Iterations should be carefully combined with sampling. A general rule of thumb is that the more iterations you throw at the image, the higher level of supersampling you should apply or the fractal density will increase.

Sampling: Defines the supersampling level for antialising.

a-f: Specifies the coefficients of the equation which define the fern shape. These coefficients are the heart of the fractal and define it’s form.

Shift: Controls the asymmetrical position of one side.

Scale: Specifies the size of the fern. Depending on the coefficient settings, you may want to adjust the scale of the fractal to be larger or smaller onscreen.

FG Color: Specifies the fractal color.

BG Color: Specifies the background color.

Save / Load: Saves and loads current fractal settings.

Rnd: Sets random coefficient values for a random fractal.

Preview / Render Multipliers: Specifies iteration multipliers for high resolution renders. These multipliers are multiplied by the iterations for both preview window and final render respectively. Therefore a preview with 1,000 iterations and a preview multiplier of 10X will provide 1,000 X 10 = 10,000 total iterations.

Changelog
v1.0 – First release.
v1.1 – Cleaned up help information.
v1.1 – Fixed file access crashing bug in Windows 10.

This software is compatible with the following OS:
Windows 8 64 bit
Windows 8 Pro 64 bit
Windows 8 Enterprise 64 bit
Windows 7 Home Basic 64 bit
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit
Windows Vista Business 64 bit
Windows Vista Enterprise 64 bit
Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit
Windows XP 64 bit
Windows XP Professional 64 bit

This software is compatible with the following hosts:
Any host capable of running Adobe Photoshop 64 bit compliant plugins
Adobe Photoshop (Version CS5 or higher, including CC) 64 bit
Adobe Photoshop Elements (Version 13 or higher, including CC) 64 bit
Adobe Illustrator (Version CS6 or higher, including CC) 64 bit
Computerinsel Photoline 64 (Version 16 or higher) 64 bit
CorelDRAW (Version X6 or higher) 64 bit
Corel Painter (Version 12.1 or higher) 64 bit
Corel Paint Shop Pro (Version X6 or higher) 64 bit
Corel Photo-Paint (Version X6 or higher) 64 bit
Paint.NET (with the PSFilterPdn plugin) 64 bit
Serif PhotoPlus (Version X6 or higher) 64 bit