Mandelbrot Metal — Your colors. Your fractal art.
25-second creative workflow demonstration

0:00–0:03 — A source space image and completed fractal artwork appear side by side. The photo supplies colors; the fractal geometry is created in Mandelbrot Metal.
0:03–0:05 — The iPhone photo picker shows the selected source image, Webb’s Pillars of Creation.
0:05–0:08 — The app’s Import Gradient preview displays the extracted warm brown, gold and blue palette.
0:08–0:11 — The palette is saved and applied to the fractal. The artwork first appears with 3D Look off.
0:11–0:15 — The recorded 3D Look control turns on. Lighting and shading add depth to the same composition.
0:15–0:18 — The app’s Capture Image size menu shows Pro output choices, and 8K is selected.
0:18–0:21 — A clearly labelled detail from the actual 3536 × 7680 PNG fills the screen. This is an image captured in the app.
0:21–0:25 — Mandelbrot Metal. Explore free. Create more with Pro. For iPhone and iPad.

Photo palettes, 3D Look and high-resolution PNG capture require Pro. Free includes Mandelbrot and Julia exploration, the Infinity Engine, all 156 built-in palettes, 56 starter bookmarks, five personal bookmark slots and canvas-size PNG capture. Free and Pro use the same rendering engine, speed and precision.

Actual app footage plays at recorded speed, with idle time removed. The gradient preview is held briefly. The opening and artwork detail are still images; no photo-to-fractal morph or synthetic artwork motion is shown. The 25-second edit shows the 8K size selection, then the completed PNG; it omits the rendering wait and sharing dialog.

Source space image: Pillars of Creation (NIRCam Image), NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
Image processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Anton Koekemoer (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI).
Source: https://science.nasa.gov/asset/webb/pillars-of-creation-nircam-image/
Usage guidance: https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/
This is an infrared observation composite with assigned visible colors.