The Official JWildfire Blog

Just released JWildfire V0.32.

Major changes where made to the fractal flames generator T.I.N.A.:

• basic scripting features which allows to create Java programs to create/modify flames!
• new variations:
• mandelbrot variation by Jed Kelsey
• crackle and hexes variations made by slobo777
• experimental t-bubble variation (complete bubble in both z directions)
• new prefs option for realtime render quality (defaults to 1)
• lots of internal refactoring concerning multithreading and performance

Have fun and a Happy New Year! 🙂

Added a new page describing the new “blur shading” option.

Just released JWildfire V0.31.

Major changes where made to the fractal flames generator T.I.N.A.:

• experimental fast sin()/cos()/tan() approximations which give a major performance boost (32.5->21.8s for the reference image)
• (pre-)(post-)circlecrop variation (originally done by Xyrus02)
• (pre-)(post-)crop variation (originally done by Xyrus02)
• some tweaks to the experimental gnarl generator
• experimental blur shader
• FIXED: errors concerning updating the ui sometimes cancelled an image generated by the batch renderer
• FIXED: flame pixels per unit setting was sometimes calculated wrong for loaded flames
• lots of (internal) refactoring

As usual click the “Random flames” button to start playing around and have fun 🙂

Just released JWildfire V0.30.

Major changes where made to fractal flames generator T.I.N.A.:

• FIXED: rendering sometimes finished too early if the system was under heavy load
• experimental gnarl random generator uses t_xy_waves instead of waves2
• new t_xy_waves variation
• also create an image (in the background color) if there are no transformations present
• new button to draw triangles in dark (for fractal with bright background)
• FIXED: sometimes not the complete preview area was refreshed correctly
• various enhancements to the shading hack
• significant render speed improvement (41.37s -> 32.45s for reference image)
• changed to elliptic variation which sometimes produces images with missing portions

As usual click the “Random flames” button to start playing around and have fun 🙂

Just released JWildfire V0.28.

Changes where again only made to fractal flames generator T.I.N.A.
Major changes:

• Fractal flame editor: batch renderer (for keeping your CPU’s working overnight :-))
• Fractal flame editor: display numeric values with higher precision, some minor bugfixes
• Fractal flame editor: automatically activate “triangle mode” if a transformation button was clicked
• Fractal flame editor: “Experimental gnarl” random generator
• Random flame editor: new and much more clear model for random flame generators
• FIXED: Fractal fame editor: also copy custom parameters while duplicating a XForm)

As usual click the “Random flames” button to start playing around and have fun 🙂

Just released JWildfire V0.27.

Changes where again only made to fractal flames generator T.I.N.A. This time there are some minor bug fixes and some small but fine new features:

• Fractal flame editor: store/load flames from/to clipboard
• Fractal flame editor: “fine” triangle moving/rotating/scaling mode (e. g. for editing gnarls ;-))
• Fractal flame editor: automatically activate “triangle mode” when the user clicks or moves a triangle in the preview window
• Fractal flame editor: load all flames in a flam3-file (instead only the 1st) and append them to the thumbnail ribbon
• Fractal flame editor: saving/loading shading attributes in flam3 files
• Fractal flame editor: new “gnarl” style for the random flame generator)

As usual click the “Random flames” button to start playing around and have fun 🙂

Just released JWildfire V0.26.

Major changes where again made to fractal flames generator T.I.N.A.

History of changes:

• Fractal flame editor: xheart variation
• Fractal flame editor: t-heart variation
• Fractal flame editor: t-colorscale variation, minor changes to variation api
• Fractal flame editor: bwraps7 variation, some refactoring
• Fractal flame editor: UI of the pseudo 3d shader finished
• Fractal flame editor: pseudo 3d shader (“3d-hack 2”)

As usual click the “Random flames” button to start playing around and have fun 🙂

Just released the first tutorial for JWildfire to create an ornamented gold plate. Have fun 🙂

Just released JWildfire V0.24.

Major changes where again made to fractal flames generator T.I.N.A.

History of changes:

• Fractal flame editor: t-pre-wave3D variation
• Fractal flame editor: t_post_mirror variation
• FIXED: Fractal flame editor: order of variation execution was broken
• Preview for flame and image file chooser

As usual click the “Random flames” button to start playing around and have fun 🙂

Just released JWildfire V0.23.

Major changes where again made to fractal flames generator T.I.N.A.

History:

• Fractal flame editor: circlize, flux and mobius variation
• Fractal flame editor: auger, wedge_julia, wedge_sph and whorl variation
• Fractal flame editor: separation, split, splits and stripes variation
• Fractal flame editor: coth, csch, modulus and oscilloscope variation
• Fractal flame editor: cosh, sech, sinh and tanh variation
• Fractal flame editor: cot, csc, sec and tan variation
• Fractal flame editor: sin and cos variation
• Fractal flame editor: exp and log variation
• Fractal flame editor: lazysusan and loonie variation
• Fractal flame editor: elliptic and escher variation
• Fractal flame editor: curve and edisc variation
• Fractal flame editor: cell and cpow variation
• Fractal flame editor: allow to import palettes from existing flames
• Fractal flame editor: bent2 and boarders variation
• Fractal flame editor: conic and parabola variation
• Fractal flame editor: supershape and flower variation
• Fractal flame editor: disc2 and foci variation
• Fractal flame editor: upto 12 nonlinear variations may be edited now
• Fractal flame editor: rays and twintrian variation
• Fractal flame editor: t_rose and t_epispiral variation
• Fractal flame editor: ngon and secant2 variation
• Fractal flame editor: some UI related bugs fixed
• Fractal flame editor: popcorn2 variation, movie/image display mode
• Fractal flame editor: polar2 variation, precalculation of properties clarified
• Fractal flame editor: prefs for movie rendering
• FIXED: Fractal flame editor: bubble variation was broken

As usual click the “Random flames” button to start playing around and have fun 🙂

Just released JWildfire V0.21.

Major changes where again made to fractal flames generator T.I.N.A.

History:

• Fractal flame editor: new “tentacle” style for random batches
• Fractal flame editor: one more (4th) row for nonlinear variation
• Fractal flame editor: translation (affine transformation) in the ui changed to using global coordinates
• Fractal flame editor: reset transform function in the UI
• Fractal flames editor: Coeeficients c20 and c21 of the affine (post) transformation may be edited manually now
• FIXED: Fractal flames editor: Flam3Writer: variation parameters where not saved
• Fractal flame editor: blade and blade3D variation
• Fractal flame editor: tangent and tangent3D variation
• Fractal flame editor: random flame generator: separated style and symmetry
• Fractal flame editor: smoother center scrollbars, increased precision of displayed numeric values
• Fractal flame editor: progress bar
• FIXED: Fractal flame editor: iteration overflow on large images (or very high quality settings)
• FIXED: Images are no longer cached
• Fractal flame editor: improved oversampling
• Fractal flame editor: some additions to the UI concerning “triangle editing”

As usual click the “Random flames” button to start playing around 🙂

Just released JWildfire V0.20.

Major changes where again made to fractal flames generator T.I.N.A.

• “triangle editing”: improved performance – again: dragging triangles was never so much fun before 🙂
• support for (affine) post transforms
• different random flame generators

As usual click the “Random flames” button to start playing around 🙂

Just released JWildfire V0.19.

Major changes where again made to fractal flames generator T.I.N.A.

• “triangle editing” using the mouse directly on top of the rendered image which is updated in realtime – dragging triangles was never so much fun before 🙂
• improved performance
• automatically appending file extensions and asking before overwriting files

As usual click the “Random flames” button to start playing around 🙂

Just released JWildfire V0.18.

Major changes where made to fractal flames generator T.I.N.A.

• basic “triangle editing”
• major bug fixed (the thumbnail was removed after loading a thumbnail into the main area – of coz only the hint label should be removed LOL)

As usual click the “Random flames” button to start playing around 🙂