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Just released JWildfire V1.80 which features a completely new module designed to generate 3D-models from your fractals in an easy way.
Here is an example of the basic workflow:
(http://www.andreas-maschke.de/java/tmp/jwf1.80_mesh_workflow.jpg)

Complete list of changes:
- new module to generate meshes from 3d-flame-fractals! The module consists of three parts:
- a volumetric renderer
- a mesh generator which uses the marching-cubes-algorithm to generate a mesh from a stack of rendered images
- a previewer which can either create a quick-preview by some internal renderer or a high quality-preview by using the integrated sunflow-renderer
In comparison to some other solutions the module has the following strengths:
- it works multi-threaded and has decent speed
- it creates not only vertices, but also vertex normals
- it is able to process really huge meshes, if you have enough memory
- the mesh-generator supports additional smoothing and can process any image-stack in the formats supported by JWildfire. So probably you could also convert Mandelbulb3D Voxelstack by using this modeule (I have not tried it, so any feedback is welcome)
- it is extensible and open source
- a tutorial-document describing how to use the new module, including an example, is provided in the new help-section (Users of the V1.80 ALPHA: Please note that both the program and the document have changed in several significant ways)
- restructured the Help/About-section, updated some informations, added an Aphophysis-users-hints-page
- improved the “Strong hue”-random-color-generator to produce more interesting results
- black-border-fix for the “bwrands”-variation by dark-beam
- new “log_db”-variation by dark-beam
- new “asteria”-variation by dark-beam
- new “ztwister”-variation by dark-beam
- made the “custom_wf”-variations more robust to errors. If an error occurs during regular calculation (e.g. after loading a flame with errors in the java-code) the variation does nothing. If you edit the code, you cant save it until you fixed the error
- improved start-script for Macs by Matthew Townsend
- new fluent-API to create sunflow-scenes (only interesting for developers)

You can download the new version at the projects web page:  http://www.andreas-maschke.com/?page_id=351 (http://www.andreas-maschke.com/?page_id=351)

Enjoy!