A power outage interrupted my render job.
After 6 hours of rendering, It stopped at frame 314 of 480 total PNG frames.
When the power was restored the render began again at frame 1. There was no option to restart at frame 314.
If there were a "Frame Range" option I could have restarted at frame 314.

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Mark Jeronimus posted Jun 21 at 8:15 pm
I can't paste some numbers into the layer's location fields, and get this cute error:


It seems to be related to the length. If the coordinate is small, like double precision-small, it pastes fine. If it's 2000 or 1000 digits long, it's also fine. If it's 500 or 625 digits long, then I get this error. These are not exact bounds, they are just some of the lengths I tried and failed.

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recent by Phillip  ·  Jun 28 at 10:16 am
Otto Magus posted Apr 16 at 3:53 pm
It is not currently possible to upload new formulas to the database.
When I try to do so, I'm directed to this page:
https://formulas.ultrafractal.com/error.htm

Also, it is not possible to update public formulas via File > Update Public Formulas. The error message is "IOSHandler value is not valid."

In addition, when accessing the formula section of the site, some people are get
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recent by physicist  ·  Jun 27 at 9:56 pm
Hello,

I recently noticed quite a few instances of my monitor staying on the entire night. This morning I used "powercfg /requests" and it showed UF blocking the monitor from turning off:

C:\Windows\system32>powercfg /requests
DISPLAY:
Keine.

SYSTEM:
[PROCESS] \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Program Files\Ultra Fractal 6\Uf6.exe

AWAYMODE:
Keine.
I thought it might be due to the browsing wind
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recent by Phillip  ·  Jun 26 at 6:01 am
Hello Frederik!

I've recently gotten myself a new computer, and with that, I was sadly forced to "upgrade" to Windows 11.

I've noticed that the UI is a complete mess on this version of Windows, as the input fields are all sorts of jacked up.

There's basically zero visual clarity, and it's making it very difficult to work with the software.

I've uploaded two screenshots, the first
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recent by BreOfAnna  ·  Jun 22 at 10:40 am
I don't know about you guys, but I constantly get this pop-up when I try to make print size renders.

The reason this happens to me is because I typically render without AA, as the built-in AA in UltraFractal has a tendency of giving me very suboptimal results (or just being way too slow compared to rendering without AA and downsampling) in my specific use case, so I just do a raw render and d
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recent by Frederik Slijkerman  ·  Jun 18 at 9:54 am
Urs posted Sep 30 '18 at 5:53 pm
Hi, after using only notebooks for over a decade, I am thinking about getting a (Windows) desktop PC. Not being much of a gamer, my primary concern with performance is deep-zooming the Mandelbrot set in UF. Does anybody have a suggestion for this, or even a benchmark computed on their machine?

I've read Frederik suggesting an i7. Is UF specifically tailored to Intel? I never read anything abo
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recent by Eric B  ·  Jun 4 at 2:15 am
I have postet once a distance algo for outside, now i try to realize a inside algo too.
I got the formula from a website but it doesn’t work.
I’m probably making a very stupid mistake that I just can’t see.
I can also provide code, but only in CP script language.

Has somebody a working distance algo for inside?

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physicist posted May 5 at 8:58 pm
In some of my formulas I didn't put in a version parameter and I want to change the formula without breaking old fractals.

If I had included something like

int param version
caption = "Version"
default = 240330
visible = @version < 240330
endparam
then I could have used code like

if @version <= 240330
; old stuff
else
; new stuff
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recent by Frederik Slijkerman  ·  May 14 at 3:39 pm
So I recently began experimenting with plug-ins for the first time, and I think I got the basics down except for one thing..

The flower plug-ins that I know do exist can't be found when I want to change the Mandelbrot forumla.



So they're here, shown as available in the file browser for plug-ins.

But then...



Not there when I try to find them after applying the Plug-in
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recent by BreOfAnna  ·  May 6 at 12:34 am
Dint posted Aug 2 '19 at 12:29 am
I went through the documentation but I am not sure I am understanding correctly.

My question is pretty simple.

If I have a formula file
an Inside COloring file
and OUtside Coloring file

Can I pass a parameter on the formula file to the coloring file... specifically the Color density?

Thank you for your help in advance!

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recent by Phillip  ·  Mar 25 at 11:03 am
Hi - I'm trying to do some zooms and I'm getting a lot of "sparklies" in areas where there's lots of detail (hopefully that descriptor makes sense). Adjusting the anti-aliasing parameters help a bit but the sparklies never really go away. Depth 2 or 3 seems to have the most effect but the render times become extremely long. Threshold of 0 vs. 0.1 vs 0.2 doesn't seem to have much effect. I've
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recent by Frederik Slijkerman  ·  Mar 18 at 8:22 am
I was just working with the distance estimation algorithms and also created a few for some of my own fractals.
The idea came up that it might be possible to significantly increase the calculation speed using a distance estimation method, especially when high anti-aliasing is used.
The distance is particularly accurate when you are near the boundary. You could, for example, use a 9x9 anti-al
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recent by Tester37  ·  Mar 15 at 9:27 pm
rosemary de dear posted Sep 27 '22 at 7:16 am
Would someone have an example of a neg mandel param similar to those of Dan Wills? I have only just come across these and woud like to play with them.

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recent by Eric B  ·  Mar 14 at 9:22 pm
Dint posted May 9 '23 at 9:52 pm
I have an older INtel i7 computer I don't use anymore because I replaced it with newer one. I would like to use the old I7 computer as a server. To my understanding. THere is a way to make the older computer into a Server. Reading the instructions I am trying to understand some things.


Does having the server mean that all computation runs on the server all computers running server or is
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recent by Eric B  ·  Feb 24 at 9:17 pm
JVYV posted Dec 27 '17 at 12:49 pm
Hi Frederik,

When using UF6 (and the previous versions also) my computers CPU (Intel I5 with 4 cores) is working at 100 % while my GPU (NVIDIA GeForce GTX670) is doing ... right ... nothing at all.

There are softwares - I'm refering to "SETI@home" (*) - that are doing math calculations and are using not only the CPU's in your PC but also the GPU as you can see on the diagram below and th
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recent by Phillip  ·  Feb 6 at 7:46 am
Imran posted Dec 16 '24 at 11:44 am
Oh boi! Finally managed to get back to "ultrafractaling" after some six years. Sucks to be me. lol

Anyways, lets hope life doesn't happen again. Thank you so much for making this awesome software, both from the artistic point of view as well as a software/app. I will try to eat your brains with so many questions and feature requests (since 2003~)... (grump-gasm intensifying).

My last pos
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recent by Frederik Slijkerman  ·  Jan 4 at 3:17 pm
physicist posted Dec 11 '24 at 4:43 pm
Masks are applied to a group by applying the mask to each layer in the group, according to the help file.

It would be useful if a mapping transformation could be applied to a group, presumably by applying it to each layer. (A kaleidoscope transformation is one obvious example.)

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recent by Frederik Slijkerman  ·  Jan 4 at 3:13 pm
WKCook posted Jan 3 at 12:25 am
I would like to create a file for my 3D Printer. I have seen it done with another program where you create a fractal, change some parameters, and then have the program generate several hundred images of all the fractals in between. Then they imported the images into Blender to generate a solid and output an STL file.

That was a pretty old video and thought there might be an easier way.

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recent by Frederik Slijkerman  ·  Jan 4 at 3:13 pm
So I've been trying to find different ways to get rid of this stutter that occurs at the start and end of my looping gradients.

The slower the animation, the more obvious it is but it's still there even when it's just 6 seconds on loop.

Example posted to YouTube

It occurred on my ancient PC and it still happens on my newer one which makes me think it's a software issue. Does anyone h
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recent by Frederik Slijkerman  ·  Dec 1 '24 at 10:51 am
KathyR posted Jan 13 '23 at 2:33 am
I found an interesting and visually pleasing phenomenon called Domain Coloring. Based on mathematical formulas, I don't know how closely it relates to fractals. I'm a big fan of rainbow coloring and when I stumbled upon these images I was mesmerized. Is there any way to make something like this in UF?
Here's a link: https://www.dynamicmath.xyz/domain-coloring/dcgallery.html



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recent by Alexandre Vachon  ·  Oct 19 '24 at 1:48 pm
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