The Official JWildfire Blog

Just released JWildfire V3.50 which is a rather big update. Again, thanks Rick Sidwell, Jesus Sosa and Brad Stefanov for their valuable contributions!

Changes in short:

• simplified and faster user interface, no more nested windows
• support for Java 10 (but you can still use Java 8)
• affine3D-transform and affine3D-random-flame-generator which creates nice 3d-shapes
• lots of new variations/transforms/formulas
• lots of optimizations

Complete changes (you can also see this list inside the program at the any time, see Help->List of changes ):

• removed the desktop and the Navigator-window in order to simplify and speed-up the user-interface
• faster app-startup, there are now 3 random flames generated at start (and it is still faster than before)
• improved the resize-behaviour/speed of the main-editor-window
• support for Java 10 (Please note, that JWildfire still works with Java 8 and Java 8 ist still supported by Oracle.
  But, Java 10 is also supported now, and when you want to use the UI-scaling-feature, you will need Java 10.)
• many new variations:
  • affine3D (ported from Flamelet)
  • anamorphcyl (Jesus Sosa)
  • dc_kaleidotile (Brad Stefanov)
  • disc3 (Brad Stefanov)
  • glynns3subfl (Jesus Sosa)
  • gpattern (Jesus Sosa)
  • hyperbolicellipse (Jesus Sosa)
  • lazysensen (Brad Stefanov)
  • lozi (Brad Stefanov)
  • nsudoku (Jesus Sosa)
  • projective (Brad Stefanov)
  • pulse (Brad Stefanov)
  • pTransform (Rick Sidwell)
  • q_ode (Brad Stefanov)
  • ringsubflame (Jesus Sosa)
  • sunflower (Jesus Sosa)
  • sunvoroni (Jesus Sosa)
  • taprats (Jesus Sosa)
  • terrain3D (Jesus Sosa)
  • vibration2 (Brad Stefanov)
  • wangtiles (Jesus Sosa)
• new “Affine3D”-random-flame-generator (also taken from Flamelet)
• updated the jsyntaxpane-library (used for syntax-highlighting while editing text) to version 1.1.5
• increased the default font size for the script-editor inside JWildfire
• internal optimization/API-changes: extended the API of variations:
  there is now an initOnce()-Event which is only called once for the
  first thread (unlike to init() which is called for each thread).
  This new event should be used for heavy init-operations (like loading and parsing a file)
• the following variations use the new API and should behave more smooth (=use less memory and CPU)
  when initializing for a render:
  • wangtiles
  • terrain3D
  • dla_wf
  • dla3d_wf
  • knots3D
  • sattractor3D
• improved the speed of the following variations:
  • dustpoint
  • knots3D
  • sattractor3D
• improved the stability of the following variations (Rick Sidwell):
  • brownian_js
  • dragon_js
  • glynnsim3
  • ghosperisland
  • hilbert_js
  • htree_js
  • koch_js
  • lsystem_js
  • rsquares_js
  • tree_js
  • new property tinaLSystemMaxLength in the prefs to specify maximum size of the generated string for the L-System variation
• bug fixes for symmetry order and animation control update
• fixed a bug regarding rendering motion-blur

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