{"id":4074,"date":"2014-12-23T01:07:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T00:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreas-maschke.com\/?p=4074"},"modified":"2014-12-23T01:07:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T00:07:36","slug":"saying-thanks-to-the-community-jwf2-22-xmas-edition-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.overwhale.com\/?p=4074","title":{"rendered":"Saying thanks to the community: JWF2.22 XMAS-EDITION release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a title=\"JWildfire downloads\" href=\"http:\/\/www.andreas-maschke.com\/?page_id=351\">JWildfire V2.22 XMAS-EDITION<\/a>! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>It has been a while since the previous release, so\u00a0there 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:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ability to use images as\u00a02D-gradient for awesome &#8220;natural&#8221; looking fractals<\/li>\n<li>the invention of iflames and first implementation as variation &#8220;iflames_wf&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>easy 3D-flames by supporting affine-transform in 3D in the editor<\/li>\n<li>use any fractal as bokeh-shape<\/li>\n<li>bokeh-random-flame-generator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Complete list of changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ability to use images as 2D-gradient fore awesome &#8220;natural&#8221; looking fractals<\/li>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<li>first implementation of iflames in form the &#8220;iflames_wf&#8221;-variation (please stay tuned for a tutorial)<\/li>\n<li>new button to switch on\/off progressive preview in the interactive renderer<\/li>\n<li>new Bokeh-shapes:\n<ul>\n<li>CannabisCurve<\/li>\n<li>Cloverleaf<\/li>\n<li>Flower<\/li>\n<li>Perlin Noise<\/li>\n<li>SubFlame (use ANY fractal as shape, even SVG-shapes. Save the flame as &#8220;_dof_&lt;number&gt;.flame&#8221; into your flame folder, where number is a zero padded nummber starting from 1, e.g. &#8220;0001&#8221;, &#8220;0002&#8221;, &#8230;. 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