Infinite Barnsley Fern Iterated System
Watch the classic Barnsley fern grow point by point from the chaos game: four real affine transformations, picked by their true probabilities (0.01 / 0.85 / 0.07 / 0.07), converge onto the fractal fern attractor in real time.
This simulator runs the real Barnsley fern chaos game: four affine transformations with their true probabilities (0.01, 0.85, 0.07, 0.07) are applied to a single wandering point, one randomly chosen map per step, and every resulting position is plotted. There is no drawn outline anywhere — the frond shape you see is entirely an emergent statistical pattern, the attractor that this random process converges to no matter where it starts. Points are held in a fixed-size instanced buffer that keeps overwriting itself once full, so the fern regrows forever rather than settling into a static image. Adjust the iteration rate, point size and the stem transform's probability to see how each piece of the system shapes the final form.
Explore the mesmerizing creation of an infinite, self-similar fern using the Chaos Game – adjust parameters to influence fractal detail and color variations in real time.
2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install