Fractal Design

Fractal Design was a US software company, originally known as Fractal Software and founded in 1985.[1] It merged into MetaCreations in 1997.[2] It was initially known as Fractal Technology, and produced several best-selling creative software packages for the PC and Macintosh platforms. Its initial success was Fractal Painter, a natural media drawing program released in 1990. It acquired Ray Dream Software in 1996. In 1997, it was merged into MetaCreations. The products in its portfolio were later sold off to other major software producers including Corel and Microsoft.

Fractal Design's original products included

Fractal Design also purchased and released Creature House Expression from Creature House software.


References

  1. "Mark Zimmer". Mark Zimmer. Retrieved 2010-09-13.
  2. "MetaCreation's Puzzling Move". Stephen Beale, MacWorld.com, December 15, 1999. Retrieved 2010-09-13.


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