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First of all, of course, your software is amazing and deserves all kind of praise.

I'm a motion graphics and VFX animator and would love to use Mandelbulber in commercial production and for fine art, but the animation controls are still too unwieldy / unpredictable.
The most helpful feature you could add would be a true animation timeline!  Being able to scrub back-and-forth in time, seeing the exact location of the camera at a specific moment, making subtle tweaks to timing and flight path - these would all be very simple with an implementation like in the attached image.



Real timeline and keyframe data would also make it possible to integrate Mandelbulber into a larger production pipeline, so artists could do all kinds of integration with live footage or other CG graphics.  Imagine placing a castle or fortress deep inside a Mandelbox.  Or flying starships through the middle, or using it as a landscape in a music video!

I would happily donate to development for this feature, and share Mandelbulber with production studios here in LA.

Thanks again for making this great program!
--David

Your idea for a time-line editor is really great but...
Only donation which can help me is a free time, but you can't give me this. I would like to implement many features and more professional user interface in Mandelbulber, but the problem is that I'm doing this software almost alone. I can't resign from my regular work because I love it, so I have limited time for programming. Developing of this application is only my hobby which probably never will be commercialized. However it is a open source application. If anybody can do such a timeline editor, just tell me.