MandelKit questions and answers
Concise answers to the questions that matter before a long zoom, a large export or sharing a region.
Which devices does MandelKit support?
MandelKit is a native app for Mac, iPhone and iPad. Regions and visual settings use a shared model, while the interface and workload adapt to each device.
Does MandelKit use Apple Metal?
Yes. Metal performs the massively parallel per-pixel rendering and visual stages. Extreme deep zoom additionally uses high-precision reference-orbit techniques where ordinary GPU floating point is no longer sufficient.
Can I explore fractals offline?
Core rendering, editing, saving and export happen on the device. Internet access is needed for App Store delivery, iCloud synchronization when enabled, and publishing or opening shared website regions.
Can MandelKit export 100,000 × 100,000 pixels?
On Mac, the 2D disk-backed tiled export supports custom dimensions up to 100,000 × 100,000 pixels. Actual time and storage depend on the scene, antialiasing, effects and file encoder.
How can an export exceed Metal’s texture limit?
The app renders many bounded tiles instead of allocating one enormous GPU texture, then assembles the result through disk-backed output. This keeps peak GPU and system memory under control.
What is shared when I publish a region?
The preview, region name, optional creator name, fractal coordinates, zoom and the visual settings needed to reproduce the result are made accessible according to the selected visibility. The publication dialog asks for explicit consent before upload.
What happens if a region needs a newer app version?
Published data records its required schema version. The website only offers the direct open action when a compatible released app version is known; otherwise it explains that an update is pending. A newer live version links to its App Store update page.