Phillip
posted Feb 4 '22 at 10:46 am
Hello,
since some people were wondering how I made some of my images, I decided to write a short tutorial on how to use the coupling loops formula in phs.ufm which I used several times over the last months.
When you first open it, this is what it looks like. The loopy stuff is located in the valleys of the main set and also the minibrots. As a rule of thumb, the higher c is, the stronger
Phillip
posted Jun 28 '21 at 2:19 pm
Hello,
I upgraded to UF 6.04 today and every time I open the explorer window for any parameter I get a huge CPU spike. This happens even if my mouse is nowhere near the window and nothing else is rendering. This takes several seconds and despite having a 12C/24T CPU it drains my computer of resources to an extent that even the playback of windowed Youtube Videos starts to stutter.
Oddly e
Phillip
posted Jan 27 '22 at 3:27 pm
Hello!
I'm currently rendering a fractal that told me it would take 8 hours initially, quickly rose to 9 hours, then 10 hours. Now it has been running for almost 3 hours and it still predicts between 9 and 10 hours.
Here's my guess of what is happening: The fractal is basically a spiral with the highest iteration counts toward the center of the image, so I would expect the rendering to sl
JVYV
posted Feb 1 '22 at 2:13 pm
Hi All,
This month only one but a very beautiful "16 in one" fractal in the collection.
You can find the whole existing collection at the cloud of Microsoft:
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=2AB35EAF574CA6CE!1034&authkey=!ALIZio6ZmgV1aAo&ithint=folder%2ctxt
Greetings from Belgium
Jan Vyvey
Phillip
posted Jan 19 '22 at 1:54 pm
Hello,
I recently ran into the problem of wanting to use the switch to Julia mode on a pretty multi-layer fractal. It would be great to have a way of using all layers for the new Julia fractal, rather than just the active layer. I get that it's possible to do them one by one and copy-paste them into the same window, it just seems a lot more tedious that it has to be.
Best regards,
Phi
jabeck
posted Dec 26 '21 at 7:13 pm
Hi, I've been playing around with the image Trap coloring as mentioned in the manual, but got curious, is there something similar that can take a movie file instead of a still image? Or can it be coded? Thanks!
(Literary readers: yes, this is a reference to the Wallace Stevens poem, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.”)
This image has 16 fractals arranged in a 4 by 4 array. All 16 have the same gradient and the same Formula tab (Julia from Standard.ufm). All of the Outside tabs use Plug-in Coloring (Gradient) from Standard.ucl, and the Distance Coloring plug-in from jlb.ulb. The di
jam
posted Dec 14 '21 at 1:06 pm
Just FYI, I have not been able to connect to the formula database site in several days. Anyone else having this problem?
JVYV
posted Jan 2 '22 at 9:12 am
Hi All,
This month no new fractal parameter files in the collection.
You can find the whole existing collection at the cloud of Microsoft:
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=2AB35EAF574CA6CE!1034&authkey=!ALIZio6ZmgV1aAo&ithint=folder%2ctxt
Greetings from Belgium
Jan Vyvey
Now that Windows 11 has started rolling out to end users I would be interested to know if Ultra Fractal has been tested on this platform.
I'm assuming UF will probably run ok on Win11?
Thanks.
Censorship is a terrible thing.
JVYV
posted Nov 30 '21 at 1:06 pm
Hi All,
This month no new fractal parameter files in the collection.
You can find the whole existing collection at the cloud of Microsoft:
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=2AB35EAF574CA6CE!1034&authkey=!ALIZio6ZmgV1aAo&ithint=folder%2ctxt
Greetings from Belgium
Jan Vyvey
JVYV
posted Oct 31 '21 at 4:24 pm
Hi All,
This month one new fractal parameter files in the collection.
You can find the whole collection at the cloud of Microsoft:
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=2AB35EAF574CA6CE!1034&authkey=!ALIZio6ZmgV1aAo&ithint=folder%2ctxt
Greetings from Belgium
Jan Vyvey
Here's a fractal using some of my recent formula classes. The iteration formula class is Threelevel, and the coloring is DistanceColoring. ThreeLevel is inspired by several formulas with Barnsley in the name, where one formula is used if some function of z is above a critical value, and another if below.
Feel free to tweak.
SeeingThrough {
; 210930g6c
::JFqjrhn2tv1WPOutV43Hg
JVYV
posted Oct 1 '21 at 9:12 am
Hi All,
Sorry but this month no new fractal parameter files in the collection.
You can find the whole collection at the cloud of Microsoft:
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=2AB35EAF574CA6CE!1034&authkey=!ALIZio6ZmgV1aAo&ithint=folder%2ctxt
Greetings from Belgium
Jan Vyvey
Phillip
posted Sep 20 '21 at 10:08 am
Hello,
I'm not sure what this isn't a thing, when using the explorer I can press escape to exit, but when I'm in eyedropper mode, this doesn't work. It should be straightforward to add this and would make it a lot more convenient.
best regards,
Phillip
JVYV
posted Sep 1 '21 at 11:09 am
Hi all,
You can find the two new fractals of 202108 at the cloud of Microsoft:
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=2AB35EAF574CA6CE!1034&authkey=!ALIZio6ZmgV1aAo&ithint=folder%2ctxt
Greetings from Belgium,
Jan Vyvey
I have updated my Distance Coloring plug-in (in jlb.ulb) in several ways.
New distance plug-ins:
Gaussian Integer, similar to the coloring in Standard.ucl. This often gives interesting results when used only on early iterations.
Triangle, like Circles or Square, color according to whether z is inside or outside.
Modified plugin:
Exponential Smoothing, with addition
(I may have asked for this before.)
When debugging a formula, I don't need 15 decimal digits of precision in a printed line to see what's happening. A setting like
$decimals 4
would be nice to have. Not necessary, but nice.
Hello, i'm a uf6 apprentice and I have a question.
I'm testing and studying Kerry Michell tutorials
As you can see, my image is not as perfect as the image obtained http://www.kerrymitchellart.com/tutorials/basket/basket.html
I have made a copy and pasted of the upr of kerry and I have rendered, then I have compared both images and mine imge has defects. because?
you can
I have uploaded new Distance Coloring plug-in files to jlb.ulb. These are similar in concept to Orbit Traps: for each iteration, as the z associated with a pixel moves in the complex plane, information can be accumulated about distances. Afterwards this information is used to calculate an index into the gradient for coloring. See a sample image and a upr in the following post.
Load the upr in
JVYV
posted Aug 1 '21 at 10:03 am
Hi all,
You can find the one new fractal of 202107 at the cloud of Microsoft:
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=2AB35EAF574CA6CE!1034&authkey=!ALIZio6ZmgV1aAo&ithint=folder%2ctxt
Greetings from Belgium,
Jan Vyvey
gerrit
posted Jul 1 '21 at 3:46 am
This coloring UCL file is supposed to detect period of an orbit, and assign color index accordingly. Testing on plain mandelbrot set gives a noisy result (can't attach image here I guess, any color map, linear 0.1; values are in 0-20 range). I can see nothing wrong with the code and I have turned of guessing, normal periodicity checking, messed with tolerance, max iters, even tried extra decimals
Phillip
posted Jun 16 '21 at 5:19 pm
Hello,
over the last years I have spent quite a bit of time thinking about how to render my fractals in the best possible way. I'm quite sensitive to image quality, at least I think so, since I'm often the only one to complain about it in the first place.
Just recently I found a great way for getting phenomenal results that doesn't include any costly software, it uses the completely free
JVYV
posted Jul 1 '21 at 10:01 am
Hi all,
You can find the five new fractals of 202106 at the cloud of Microsoft:
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=2AB35EAF574CA6CE!1034&authkey=!ALIZio6ZmgV1aAo&ithint=folder%2ctxt
Greetings from Belgium,
Jan Vyvey
I'm happy to announce the release of Ultra Fractal 6.04. This free update for existing version 6 users fixes several issues on Windows and Mac, especially when running on macOS 11 (Big Sur). You can download it here:
https://www.ultrafractal.com/download/
Just let me know if you experience any problems with the update.
Note: because these downloads are new, Windows 10 might flag them a
Hi!
I’m new to this list but about 20 years ago I was a member of the UF Mailing List for a while together with my former wife Sharron. We had a fractal website called “Fracternity”, and maybe here’s the one or other fractal veteran remembering us vaguely. I have stopped making fractals for a long time, but now my interest is back, and in order to render one of my old
I’ve uploaded a new version of jlb.ucl with three new coloring formulas.
Decomposition2 is a generalization of Decomposition in dmj.ucl, by Damien Jones. It colors by the angles of #z, or of one of various functions of #z, at each iteration.
Statistics2 is a generalization of Statistics in lkm.ucl, by Kerry Mitchell. It colors by various statistics of #z, or of one of various funct
Phillip
posted Jun 9 '21 at 12:23 pm
Hello,
this one might be a low priority one, but it's something I noticed and thought I should let you know. From what I can tell, UF uses image pixel column count to separate the image into pieces that are being worked on by each thread. This works fine in almost all cases, but I encountered something interesting. If only a small area is left for calculation, and it is comparatively narrow,
WKCook
posted Mar 15 '21 at 7:24 pm
I don't have any commercial software to combine the tiles output into a single image. And wouldn't know where to begin in any case.
Is there a tutorial or easy-to-use free or low-cost solution to do this?
Thank You
