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Wild thing

(one more early motion-blur-preview, it’s becoming fun :-))

Capilla

Colormap used: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RI-51-0000105_Capilla_de_San_Jos%C3%A9-Sevilla_12.jpg

Raster

Colormap used: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nemours_Saint-Jean-Baptiste_Apostel_Jakobus_d.J._765.JPG

Money

Colormap used: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soviet_Union-1957-Banknote-3-Reverse.png

Knowledge

Colormap used: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HatchRedpath1-05epsilon-0569.png

Folded reality

Colormap used: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2008_BostonGarden_2600881722.jpg

Lens

Colormap used: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bojov,_zast%C3%A1vka,_budovy.jpg

Shining

Colormap used: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ribnik_(Sa_isto%C4%8Dne_strane).png

A new kind of art: JWildfire V1.20 release

Just released JWildfire V1.20. Again, this is a striking new version with some major new features, so I skipped some version numbers.

First, there are some really cool (and some of them long-awaited) variations 🙂

Second, I introduce a new concept of fractal art: generating random fractals by mixing conventional random flames with randomly selected images from the internet, specifically from Wikipedia Commons.
Fractals created this way can look truly amazing, and it can be fun to guess which kind of image may be hidden in a certain fractal 🙂
There is a special dialog inside the program which explains all you must know about this feature. This dialog just pops up when you try to create random flames by using the new “Wikimedia Commons”-random-flame-generator, so you cant miss it 🙂

Finally, I simplified anti-aliasing. It is now on a per-flame-basis (not on transform-basis). Makes it more simple to understand and more simple to handle, no more need to copy settings from one transform to another 🙂

Complete list of changes:

new “Wikimedia Commons”-random-flame-generator
new “Synth”-random-flame-generator
warning dialog when closing JWildfire
simplified antialiasing to have it on global per-flame-basis (rather than per xform). The “Anti-Aliasing”-tab was moved near the global “Coloring”-tab, accordingly
new “synth” variation by slobo777
new “onion” variation by chronologicaldot
new “blur_zoom” variation from Apo
new “lazyjess” variation by FarDareisMai
new “voron” variation by eralex61
new “bubbleT3D” variation by FractalDesire
dramatically improved the performance of the “colormap_wf” variations
support for inlining images in flame-parameters (e. g. uses by the colormap_wf variation)
fixed a problem regarding the free-triangle-editing-mode
fixed a problem regarding loading containg flames with multiple layerz
fixed a problem in the JWildfire.exe regarding paths containing space characters
slightly reduced the size of controls of the gradient-editor