{"id":4458,"date":"2015-07-21T03:25:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T01:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreas-maschke.com\/?p=4458"},"modified":"2015-07-21T03:26:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T01:26:19","slug":"jwildfire-2-56-release-improved-render-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.overwhale.com\/?p=4458","title":{"rendered":"JWildfire 2.56 release: improved render-quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just\u00a0<a title=\"JWildfire downloads\" href=\"http:\/\/www.andreas-maschke.com\/?page_id=351\" target=\"_blank\">released\u00a0JWildfire V2.56<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This version comes with the following major new features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>improved render quality: spatial oversampling and a few of other option to significantly improve render-quality (see the official Wiki for details:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.jwildfire.org\/index.php?title=Manual_RenderQualityFlameFractals\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wiki.jwildfire.org\/index.php?title=Manual_RenderQualityFlameFractals<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>visualisation of filter-kernels to make it more transparent how filtering works and how different settings work<\/li>\n<li>reduced memory-usage (needs about 50% of memory with identical settings as before)<\/li>\n<li>simplified install: no more installer, just unzip, additional package for Windows 64 Bit with pre-installed Java and Leap-motion-dll&#8217;s<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Complete list of changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0new spatial-oversampling-option for improved render-quality. The default value is 2, this may be set in the Preferences<\/li>\n<li>visualisation of filter-kernels for better understanding\/easier customizing of the spatial filtering process, both a nice-looking 3d-mode and a fast 2d-mode are available<\/li>\n<li>new sample-jittering- and color-oversampling-option for improved render-quality. The default value is off, this may be set in the Preferences.<\/li>\n<li>new post-noise-filtering-option for redusing noise of the final noise by using an adaptive gaussian filter. The default value is off, this may be set in the Preferences.<\/li>\n<li>added a brief description of all of this options in the official Wiki: http:\/\/wiki.jwildfire.org\/index.php?title=Manual_RenderQualityFlameFractals<\/li>\n<li>changed the memory management\/layout of the iteration buffer (rendering should now take significantly less memory, and initialisation of rendering runs substantly faster, comes to a cost of only slightly degraded render time)<\/li>\n<li>the final image-generating-process now works fully multi-threaded and should be faster<\/li>\n<li>added a new experimental option &#8220;Opacity&#8221; to control the opacity of the foreground when rendering an image with background (often those renders caused the loss of too many details)<\/li>\n<li>new &#8220;Pseudo3D&#8221;-random-flame-generator<\/li>\n<li>improved the &#8220;Xenomorph&#8221;-random-flame-generator<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0improved the &#8220;Cross&#8221;-random-flame-generator<\/li>\n<li>some more useful statistics in the interactive renderer, e.g. absolute render-speed-indicator to make it easier to compare different settings (render speed means the quality level the renderer can reach in one hour)<\/li>\n<li>the windows-launcher (JWildfire.exe) should now be much smarter to find a valid Java-install<\/li>\n<li>completely removed the izpack-installer (until now there were always two files: a *.zip for users who just wanted to unzip, or an izpack-based installer which caused too many problems)<\/li>\n<li>there are now two packages available: platform-independant without jdk and any dll&#8217;s, and windows64 with jdk and certain dll&#8217;s<br \/>\n&#8211; removed the applet from the distribution<\/li>\n<li>the Chaotica-integration is now disabled by default (in order to hide the export-button which may occupy important space for some users)<\/li>\n<li>changed the animation-playback in the main-editor to full-window-size<\/li>\n<li>made the detached renderer and the interactive renderer to behave more smooth<\/li>\n<li>progressbar-update should be much smoother now, i.e. use less ressources<\/li>\n<li>negative &#8220;perspective&#8221;-values are allowed now (again)<\/li>\n<li>when using post-symmetry, the maximum of symmetry-order of point-symmetry was increased from 18 to 36<\/li>\n<li>new ouputchannel to change param-values of plugins via the Leap Motion controller<\/li>\n<li>added a new option tinaIntegrationChaoticaAnimationExport to the preferences. This option controls if the flames which are\u00a0exchanged over the Chaotica-bridge are animated flames or static flames. In case you export them as static flames and have not a Studio licence for Chaotica you may render in higher resolutions.<\/li>\n<li>fixed a bug in the crop-like variations<\/li>\n<li>fixed a bug regarding autoimatically saving the current flame in the iteractive renderer<\/li>\n<li>some refactoring of the structure synthesizer<\/li>\n<li>completely removed all experimental opencl-code<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just click the &#8220;Random flames&#8221; button to start playing around and have fun \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just\u00a0released\u00a0JWildfire V2.56. This version comes with the following major new features: improved render quality: spatial oversampling and a few of other option to significantly improve render-quality (see the official Wiki for details:\u00a0http:\/\/wiki.jwildfire.org\/index.php?title=Manual_RenderQualityFlameFractals) visualisation of filter-kernels to make it more transparent how filtering works and how different settings work reduced memory-usage (needs about 50% of memory with identical settings as before) simplified install: no more installer, just unzip, additional package for Windows 64 Bit with pre-installed Java and Leap-motion-dll&#8217;s Complete list of changes: \u00a0new spatial-oversampling-option for improved render-quality. 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