The Barnsley Fern is a fractal named after the British mathematician Michael Barnsley who first described it in his book Fractals Everywhere. He made it to resemble the Black Spleenwort, Asplenium adiantum-nigrum.
HTML 5 Canvas Javascript 500,000 pixels
A demonstration of this code is available here.
Click and drag the canvas to move the fern. Use + and - buttons to zoom.
- Zooming in and out is slightly unpredictable. Using the mouse to zoom is disabled for the time being.