Title: JWildfire 2.34 release: now with iflames-editor Post by: thargor6 on February 22, 2015, 01:39:38 AM Just released JWildfire V2.34 which is a major update, featuring a whole new module: the iflames-editor! Another major feature is the ability to cache flame-thumbnails on harddisk, which may especially improve the speed of the flame-browser a lot. But also normal browsing of flames will benefit from this. And, also the iflames editor… but what are iflames? ;-) An “iflame” is some kind of a symbiosis of computer images and flame fractals, and is still a flame-fractal. The basic idea is to build one huge fractal by exchanging “important” pixels of an image by swarms of small fractals. So, an iflame is made by a picture (which may be another fractal or any other image) and a number of base-fractals. The new module makes it a breeze to create iflames and control their numerous parameters (about 350 at this time). It also allows to create a library of your own images and flames, and create random iflames using this data, the possibilities are endless :-) Complete list of changes: - powerful new sub-application to create iflames (you can reach it form the main window-menu), including a particle-simulation to animate them, but please beware that this new application needs a very powerful computer, especially when you want to animate the iflames. There are about 350-parameters to change, many of them may be animated: - “Edge-finding”: controls where to place base-shapes - “Global structure”: controls the global structure of the resulting iflame - “Blending”: controls coloring - “Dynamics”: controls global settings affecting dynamics aspects, like gravity - “Base Flame Appearance: controls the base-shapes inside an iflame (you may have upto 6 different base-shapes) - “Size and orientation”: The size and oriantation of the base-shapes - “Distribution”: how to place which base-shape - “Blending”: local coloring - “Mutations”: controls how to create mutations from the base-shapes - “Dynamics”: dynamic properties (like speed in a certain direction) of base-shapes - thumbnails in the Flame-Browser are now permanently cached which means a significant speed improvement - using the Thumbnail-Cache also in the flame-file-dialog - (Optional) user-defined path for thumbnail-cache in the Prefs - new “donut”-style for the “primitives_wf”-variation (set shape=6 and play with the a- and b-parameters) - new “waveblur_wf”-variation - changed the frame-scale behaviour in the Envelope-window to scale around 0 (and not the centre) - several other improvements to the motion-curve-editor, you may auto-fit the view by double-clicking at it - fixed a problem regarding the duplication of the gradient when duplicating a flame - added a new option to automatically clear the cache in the batch renderer after rendering each image Here two recent images created using the iflames-editor: (http://www.andreas-maschke.com/wp-content/gallery/wallpapers/wallpaper_love3.jpg) (http://www.andreas-maschke.com/wp-content/gallery/wallpapers/wallpaper_paper_scraps.jpg) 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) Have Fun :beer: Andreas |