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WIN11hosed posted Jun 2 '24 at 5:07 am
Has anyone else experienced a massive slowdown running windows 11 compared to windows 10? I ran the exact same Ultra fractal file on my 2 computers, and the windows 11 computer is about 2.5x slower. With the faster RAM, SSD and CPU, I was expecting about a 2x increase on performance in the newer computer. Both computers are running the same version of Ultra fractal.
Although the newer comp
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recent by Frederik Slijkerman  ·  Jun 19 '24 at 1:17 pm
dannac posted Feb 25 '24 at 3:41 pm
Lets say I have more than 1 fractal window open.

I realize I can go to the top menu Window - ( choose fractal window )

Is there a way to assign a keyboard short cut to switch between the fractal windows ?

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recent by dannac  ·  Feb 26 '24 at 1:55 pm
Hi there,
I love kcc outside coloring trap shapes. There is one however that doesn't work correctly when setting the background color to zero opacity, it's the bubbles trap. The other shapes are ok and the black disappears. I've even tried different formulas but with same results. Does anyone know why this is?

I've included an example and for some reason the params are very long, sorry
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recent by KathyR  ·  Feb 13 '24 at 7:17 pm
Hi everyone,

I'm very happy to announce the release of Ultra Fractal 6.06. This free update for existing version 6 users introduces native Apple Silicon support, so Ultra Fractal will now run at maximum speed on all new Macs using M1 or later processors. For both Mac and Windows, this update also includes various bug fixes.

You can download it here:
https://www.ultrafractal.com/downloa
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Is there a way nowadays to export a flame (a single layer, actually) that is in an UPR as a .flame or to the clipboard or revert it back to be imported into Apophysis 7 or to the clipboard without any extra UF codes so that it can be read and redone? It currently uses the direct coloring algorithm (but it was originally made way before that, it's from 2004), and it's impossible to know which tran
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Hi everyone,

The last year I've been hard at work to update Ultra Fractal to run natively on the new Apple Silicon Macs. That was not an easy task because the internal formula compiler outputs JIT-compiled native code so it needed to be partially rewritten specially for the new ARM processors. I'm very happy to announce that it's ready for a public beta test now! If you own an Apple Silicon M
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recent by sblank  ·  Nov 25 '23 at 11:52 pm
Ruth posted Oct 27 '23 at 4:54 am
I'm currently evaluating Ultra Fractal on a 30-day trial basis on my Macbook Pro laptop and have two questions before I purchase this software:


Once I've purchased the license for this software, are subsequent new versions of the software free or will I have to pay each time a new version comes out? If I have to pay each time the next version comes out, does anyone know how much that costs?
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recent by Ruth  ·  Nov 1 '23 at 1:57 am
Completely new to Ultrafractal.

Is it possible (and if so, in a simple way) to do black and white (no gradient) scatter plots for Julia sets with Mandelbrot parameters (i.e. constant offset) as input (ideally selecting from a Mandelbrot plot)?

And is it possible to adjust "dot size" for that in a reasonable way? Background: The goal is to have these printed, and pure dots on big resolutio
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recent by Phillip  ·  Aug 7 '23 at 12:53 pm
dannac posted Jul 4 '23 at 2:27 pm
Brought in a wood texture image and applied kaleidoscope mapping.

Any way to remove white lines it creates ?

Mapping04 {
fractal:
title="Mapping04" width=640 height=480 layers=1
credits="Danna Chiasson;7/4/2023" antialiasing=yes
layer:
caption="Background" opacity=100 transparent=yes
mapping:
center=5.2843953685/1.1476158665 magn=0.51656276 transforms=1
transform:
caption="Kalei
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recent by dannac  ·  Jul 8 '23 at 8:13 pm
physicist posted Jun 3 '23 at 4:33 pm
I saw a painting by Bridget Riley (see https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/new-exhibit-showcases-mind-bending-art-bridget-riley-180980563/) and wondered what I could make that would be similar. It’s clearly a case of adding waves to horizontal lines.

I wanted to start with a pixel formula and a coloring formula that would just reproduce the gradient horizontally and then apply a
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recent by dannac  ·  Jun 5 '23 at 2:27 pm
physicist posted Jun 4 '23 at 1:54 am
The Waves transform can be used to generate interesting patterns or textures. The left third of the strip is the image from Group 1 of the upr below; it is the difference of two layers. The middle third is from Group 2, which is the difference of three layers. The right third is the difference of the two Groups. (I made the strip from three separate images using the FastStone Image Viewer.)


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recent by Velvet--Glove  ·  Jun 5 '23 at 1:15 pm
Frederik Slijkerman posted May 31 '23 at 10:35 am
Many of you may have noticed that it was impossible to log in to the forum during the past week due to issues at the hosting provider responsible for hosting the Ultra Fractal web site. I'm very pleased to say that this has been resolved and the forum is back up again! My apologies for the outage.

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physicist posted Apr 20 '23 at 9:48 pm
I'm moving to a new computer. I've installed UF6.05 successfully. Where on my old computer are my Preferences saved? I'd like to just copy them over to the new computer, with a little editing.

The usual place would be
C:\MyName\Appdata\Roaming\Ultra Fractal 6
but I don't see anything useful there.

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recent by IssacAcker  ·  May 17 '23 at 9:32 am
I'm trying to create a Droste effect animation of a single image inspired by M.C. Escher's print gallery version from a Leiden University study. Here is a sketch I made :
Thanks to Ultra Fractal and a Droste plugin from Jos Leys, I managed to create the desired effect :
As you can see I have a resolution problem on this last sketch due to the very high magnification (about 256 t
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recent by Bolos  ·  May 16 '23 at 12:34 pm
KathyR posted Apr 30 '23 at 3:58 am
Hello,
Would someone be kind enough to take a look inside the sp3 formula folder. All I'm seeing is a bunch of gobbledygook and the formula I'm looking for is called Cubic Parameterspace 3. I'm trying to upload a parameter set of Ingvar's on DA and it's not working. I have updated all my formulas.
Here is what I see inside that folder:


Ingvar said it is the very first formula i
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recent by Velvet--Glove  ·  May 6 '23 at 3:19 pm
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