The Official JWildfire Blog

Just released JWildfire V2.23. This time there are some additions to the MutaGen, new variations by Xyrus02 and some more small improvements. Enjoy!

Complete list of changes:

• MutaGen: three user-defined meta-mutation-types which can be customized in the Prefs (i. e., you may specify which mutations should be applied)
• MutaGen: new options in the Prefs to specify the four initial mutation-types to be used
• new “dc_triangle”-variation by Xyrus02
• new “dc_bubble”-variation by Xyrus02
• new “dc_carpet”-variation by Xyrus02
• new “dc_linear”-variation by Xyrus02
• new “curl_sp”-variation by Xyrus02
• improved the “Sierpinsky”-random-flame-generator
• improved the “Julian Disc”-random-flame-generator
• added a SPACE-hotkey to toggle rendering of detached preview on/off
• fixed a problem regarding the closing of the detached preview-window where the application still consumed a lot of CPU-power
• some small optimizations

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

Hello all, to celebrate the end of 2014 and saying thanks to the community for their support I have a special gift for you: the JWildfire V2.22 XMAS-EDITION! 🙂

It has been a while since the previous release, so there are some really new major new features, probably some of them will need some tutorials relaesed to be really enjoyable, but I hope, you will like them anyway:

• ability to use images as 2D-gradient for awesome “natural” looking fractals
• the invention of iflames and first implementation as variation “iflames_wf”
• easy 3D-flames by supporting affine-transform in 3D in the editor
• use any fractal as bokeh-shape
• bokeh-random-flame-generator

Complete list of changes:

• ability to use images as 2D-gradient fore awesome “natural” looking fractals
• experimental simple way to create 3d-flames by just specifying 3 affine transforms in 3 planes, needs nearly no change in the editor, but can be very powerful
• first implementation of iflames in form the “iflames_wf”-variation (please stay tuned for a tutorial)
• new button to switch on/off progressive preview in the interactive renderer
• new Bokeh-shapes:
  • CannabisCurve
  • Cloverleaf
  • Flower
  • Perlin Noise
  • SubFlame (use ANY fractal as shape, even SVG-shapes. Save the flame as “_dof_<number>.flame” into your flame folder, where number is a zero padded nummber starting from 1, e.g. “0001”, “0002”, …. Choose this flame by specifying the “flame”-param of the DOF-Shape)
  • Taurus
• new “Bokeh”-random-flame-generator
• new “Duality”-random-flame-generator
• some options in the Preferences to customize the “Duality”-random-flame-generator
• new “vogel”-variation by Victor Ganora
• Gradients:
  • new button to randomly select a gradient from the currently selected folder
  • new button to randomize color shift on the gradient tab
  • new button to randomize color speed on the gradient tab
•  new “Affine3D”-mutation for the MutaGen
•  new “Bokeh”-mutation for the MutaGen
• many optimizations, especially made the renderer more smooth, i. e. reduced the amount of thread collisions
• fixed the “rings2”-variation, was buggy from the first time
• “new dof” is off per default (as is was off in any other version)
• removed the experimental “responsiveness” setting
• removed the “cross2”-variation (which works exactly like the “cross”-variation), some small fixes

Enjoy, and I wish you some nice holidays! 🙂