Greetings to all!

I just wanted to introduce the new sub flame feature of JWildfire as I feel that this may be a general innovation on fractal flames.
The feature allows it to use a flame as variation inside any transform of another fractal flame. This way it is very easy to compose fractals without messing around with relative weights (or Photoshop ;-)). This also works with pseudo 3D flames and final transforms. And of course it can be nested :-) The only thing which does not work is opacity.

Here are some examples I created using the new "sub_flames" variation:





(all images can be found also in a higher resolution at the project's site)

I'm looking forward to any comments, hints or images :-)

Best regards

Yes, at the place where you normally would specify a nonlinear variation (as function of three coordinates) you may now specify another fractal flame. In this case the nonlinear variation is just a sub iterator which does (nearly) the same as the main iterator. I. E. at every call of the variation function the sub iterator chooses a certain transformation of the sub flame (according to the weight inside the sub flame) and calls the nonlinear variation(s) of this transformation.
This is why I call this nesting of flames. Of course the variation function of the sub flame could be substituted by another flame again :-)

I think creating some "evolution render" to visualize this would be not a bad idea, hope I will the find the time soon.