{"id":4981,"date":"2017-04-21T02:05:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T00:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreas-maschke.com\/?p=4981"},"modified":"2017-04-21T02:11:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T00:11:53","slug":"jwildfire-3-10-release-improved-image-quality-and-much-other-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.overwhale.com\/?p=4981","title":{"rendered":"JWildfire 3.10 release: improved image-quality and much other fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just\u00a0<a title=\"JWildfire downloads\" href=\"http:\/\/www.andreas-maschke.com\/?page_id=351\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">released\u00a0JWildfire V3.10<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among a lot of different changes, two major features\u00a0stand out: improved image-quality (sharpening and anti-aliasing) and an easy-to-use background-gradient-function.<\/p>\n<p>Complete list of changes (you can also see this list inside the program at the any time, see Help-&gt;List of changes ):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Image-quality:\n<ul>\n<li>new &#8220;Filtering&#8221;-option at the Anti-Aliasing\/Filtering-tab to distinguish between the various types of filtering:<br \/>\nGLOBAL_SHARPENING, GLOBAL_SMOOTHING, ADAPTIVE. The &#8220;Filter kernel&#8221; option is populated accordingly.<\/li>\n<li>new MITCHELL_SMOOTH-filter kernel (derived from MITCHELL), which is now the default<\/li>\n<li>improved the behaviour of sharpening filters (causing less artifacts)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Sharpness indicator&#8221; and &#8220;Low density&#8221;-parameters at the &#8220;Anti-Aliasing\/Filter&#8221;-tab (affects only adaptive filtering)<\/li>\n<li>new experimental adaptive MITCHELL_SINEPOW-filter (sharpenung details, smoothing &#8220;unsharp&#8221; areas as well as areas with low density)<\/li>\n<li>new &#8220;low brightness&#8221;-property to show\/hide areas with lower density, increasing this value usually leads to more detail, while decreasing<br \/>\nthis value may help to hide unwanted border areas<\/li>\n<li>increased default oversampling to 2 in order to increase default quality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Editing:\n<ul>\n<li>reimplemented the preview-cache (all options at the coloring-tab do not need a recalculation do show changes). In general, all properties<br \/>\nwhich do not need a re-render are indicated by a star at the label, e.g. &#8220;Brightness*&#8221;. Is is recommended to do a quickrender before adjusting them,<br \/>\nso can apply changes in almsot realtime to a decent image.<\/li>\n<li>improved the quality of the preview in the main editor<\/li>\n<li>the channel-mixer also works in &#8220;realtime-mode&#8221; now<\/li>\n<li>new color-balancing options at the &#8220;Coloring&#8221;-tab<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Flame-saving\/flame-thumbnail-selection\n<ul>\n<li>new SaveAll-button which saves all selected flames into a single file (thanks to Michael Bourne for the suggestion)<\/li>\n<li>new checkbox at each flame-thumbnail to (de)select it<\/li>\n<li>new popup-menus at the flame-thumbnails (press the right mouse-button over a button to display the menu):\n<ul>\n<li>remove-button: new popup-menu to remove all or remove selected flames<\/li>\n<li>checkbox (sometimes referred as &#8220;select-button&#8221;: new popoup-menu to toggle selection or deselect all<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>added confirmation dialog to the thumbnail-delete button<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Background-gradients:\n<ul>\n<li>new 2&#215;2 gradient-type for the background of fractals , may also be changed in &#8220;realtime mode&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>new 2&#215;2+c gradient-type for the background of fractals (which is the new default)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Mesh-Generator:\n<ul>\n<li>optional post-smooth (Taubin-smooth) in the mesh generator<\/li>\n<li>removed the parameters &#8220;Thickness mod&#8221; and &#8220;Thickness samples&#8221; (just fix your model if is has &#8220;holes&#8221;) in the mesh generator<\/li>\n<li>improved the rotation-behaviour of the mesh-preview in the Mesh-Generator<\/li>\n<li>improved the heuristics to calculate &#8220;depth&#8221; when creating a mesh from a voxelstack<\/li>\n<li>fixed (again) a serious bug in the Mesh-Generator: when rendering image-stacks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Misc:\n<ul>\n<li>new &#8220;Machine&#8221;-random-flame-generator<\/li>\n<li>detect flames with invalid (xaos) settings and stop to render them<\/li>\n<li>indicator-mode for adapative filtering (i. e. showing sharp\/smooth regions)<\/li>\n<li>fixed some labels which were not scale accordingly the global &#8220;tinaFontScale&#8221;-property<\/li>\n<li>rearranged some controls at the coloring-tab<\/li>\n<li>new variations, provided by Brad Stefanov (&#8220;waves2_radial&#8221;, &#8220;spliptic_bs&#8221;, &#8220;circlesplit&#8221;, &#8220;log_tile2&#8221;, &#8220;mobiq&#8221;, &#8220;tile_hlp&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>lots of new presets for the &#8220;isosfplot3d_wf&#8221;-variation, provided by Frank Baumann and Brad Stefanov<\/li>\n<li>some performance increase on some of the DOF-blur-shapes<\/li>\n<li>increased quality of DOF in 3D-mode, but needs much more time to compute<\/li>\n<li>removed the color-oversampling\/jittering-option<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/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 V3.10. Among a lot of different changes, two major features\u00a0stand out: improved image-quality (sharpening and anti-aliasing) and an easy-to-use background-gradient-function. Complete list of changes (you can also see this list inside the program at the any time, see Help-&gt;List of changes ): Image-quality: new &#8220;Filtering&#8221;-option at the Anti-Aliasing\/Filtering-tab to distinguish between the various types of filtering: GLOBAL_SHARPENING, GLOBAL_SMOOTHING, ADAPTIVE. The &#8220;Filter kernel&#8221; option is populated accordingly. new MITCHELL_SMOOTH-filter kernel (derived from MITCHELL), which is now the default improved the behaviour of sharpening filters (causing less artifacts) &#8220;Sharpness indicator&#8221; and &#8220;Low density&#8221;-parameters at the &#8220;Anti-Aliasing\/Filter&#8221;-tab (affects only adaptive filtering) new experimental adaptive MITCHELL_SINEPOW-filter (sharpenung details, smoothing &#8220;unsharp&#8221; areas as well as areas with low density) new &#8220;low brightness&#8221;-property to show\/hide areas with lower density, increasing this value usually leads to more detail, while decreasing this value may help to hide unwanted border areas increased default oversampling to 2 in order to increase default quality Editing: reimplemented the preview-cache (all options at the coloring-tab do not need a recalculation do show changes). In general, all properties which do not need a re-render are indicated by a star at the label, e.g. &#8220;Brightness*&#8221;. Is is recommended to do a quickrender before adjusting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jwildfire","category-jwildfire-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.overwhale.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.overwhale.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.overwhale.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.overwhale.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.overwhale.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.overwhale.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4985,"href":"https:\/\/blog.overwhale.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981\/revisions\/4985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.overwhale.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.overwhale.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.overwhale.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}