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 🙂
