rgames
posted Feb 5 at 10:22 pm
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
I’ll start with this quotation from the UF help file:
Since the first release of Ultra Fractal in 1998, the formulas written for it have become larger and more complex. Even though many formulas are quite similar, they could not share any common code, but had to be written as stand-alone formulas. For example, if you wanted to add just one new feature to an existing formula written by s
KathyR
posted Feb 11 at 5:13 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
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
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
rgames
posted Feb 7 at 6:06 am
I'd like to compute animation parameters outside Ultra Fractal and then import them as keyframes at specific times. For example, I'd like to import different seed keyframes and animate between them.
Is there any way to do that?
Right now I have to manually enter keyframes and values within the keyframe editor and that takes a very long time for longer animations, especially if I'm changi
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
JVYV
posted Feb 1 at 9:11 am
Hi all,
No new fractal parameters for 2023/12 and 2024/01.
Greetings from Belgium.
Jan
If you use the code window, open the search dialog, copy a text from the code, mark the search field in the dialog, paste the text.
The text is written in the code window, not the search dialog.
In Formula plug-ins, setting
periodicity=0
in the default section is not allowed. It should be allowed, as it is in non-class formulas (*.ufm).
Ditto for setting
method = multipass
So I played with UF again today. Somehow I'm ... still around ...
InAllTheWaysICanGrow {
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VVNKrlmDAPzjv8efsfBmGLr2zU/wyFIkX6ViqVfSjYKFy3KQPzO4QfCVz0o9WzzrQPL5+2qt
YMqVI336ryhmK2Bh1VRSDOp2K4Svra1vy8gLeG9562Bl/4PSIPkgh/SSXtcx4UGX0aWvXa0V
r+lwQISyKkpnVL9HqIZoOhdvozwFV1GlxucRHrvXq3PNVh2LsV4NFbJ4S62sy0yEyDrxbwQf
S+Wa
Spizzi
posted Jul 14 '23 at 4:45 pm
Hi all,
Another one exploring always SlopeMandNetwon and 3D texturizer Enhanced III in color mode point source, interesting shapes, now i have a new game.
Have a good week end
Ciao
MandyNewton {
::zKD4ejn2tnxyOSutx7Lw+P0oPFfYnlvFZC0hAEfYMsNshzhcbgaJ2TLs6llUvz0zXvLSKWN1
M9kd2NxHSQfTVVkFrXsqil2PWUOX08Xf/72sZueuxmv9nK6qO9z2Hm772u5h6q5D5Uims5gt
++DzhvbKOZHnyFutVOarqnny3+37q
With some of my recently changed formulas I've run into a problem. Here's a screenshot illustrating the problem:
The red bars should not be there. If I reload the fractal, the bars are different but still red. I also get different red bars with and without anti-aliasing, and different red bars when rendering. This image is with min and max threads of 20, the max on my system. With fewer
I've been seeing some strange behavior in some formulas that I'm working on and finally figured out why.
Here's some pseudo-code of how UF works. This is for the class version of UF; the non-class version works similarly:
for each pixel, repeat
call Iterate in the Formula plug-in to get a new z
if the new z causes bailout
call ResultIndex in the Coloring plug-in
Hello,
I ran into a bit of a headscratcher today when moving a commented line changed the output of my fractal formula. I eventually figured out that I had two comments, the first of which was a line ending in \ (the continuation character), and any line following a comment which ends with \ is not executed.
While this kind of makes sense when thinking about it (i.e. the current command c
dint
posted Nov 10 '22 at 10:32 pm
I am going through the UltraFractal help
Topic:
Combining fractals with Images.
And I get to this step:
"Locate the Color Trap plug-in parameter (currently set to Trap Shape Wrapper) and click the Browse button next to it. Navigate to the common.ulb file in the Public folder and select the Image Trap plug-in."
As soon as I click on Public->common.ulb
I get the follo
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
I found three instances in plug-in library classes that the compiler misses errors and the class doesn't show up as a plug-in.
I wrote clas instead of class
I left off the ) before the { on the first line
I left off the final } of the class (this only when the class is the last one in the ulb file).
If I leave off the initial {, the rest of the class shows up as a comment, so the error is e
Has anyone heard of this old software called ChaosPro? There is a feature that allows the generation of hypercomplex, octonionic and quaternionic fractals. I wonder if something like that can be possible in Ultra Fractal in the future, as a means to learn more about them. Is it possible to add these in a future update, and adapt perturbation theory, series approximation and bivariate linear appro
Phillip
posted Dec 4 '23 at 7:36 am
Hello,
I am not sure whether this is a feature I missed or a bug, but I noticed my monitor not turning off over night recently and tried to figure out what was happening. I used powercfg /requests as admin to see what was preventing it and it turns out it is UF.
Is this intended behavior?
There was nothing rendering, but there were 7 fractals and 2 formula files open at the time.
JVYV
posted Dec 3 '23 at 10:20 am
Hi All,
In the month November 2 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
Phillip
posted Aug 28 '23 at 8:10 pm
Hello,
I've seen this several times now with different fractals, and I don't know what causes it, but sometimes multi-layer fractals are offset. This problem seems to go away when activating anti-aliasing in the working window. Here's a screenshot:
It seems to be always exactly 1 pixel along the y-axis of the monitor, no matter the rotation of the fractal. And it also remains 1 pixe
Phillip
posted Nov 30 '23 at 10:58 am
Hello,
there is a behavior of UF that I do not see in most other software: the window focus seems to apply to all open windows. That means if my monitor is plastered with UF windows and I click one, the entirety of UF is instantly in the foreground, that is the window that I clicked and all others as well.
Sometimes I want one small window open while looking at something else, it would be
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
JVYV
posted Nov 1 '23 at 11:30 am
Hi All,
In the month October 1 new fractal parameter file 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
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?
JVYV
posted Oct 2 '23 at 1:44 pm
Hi All,
In the month September 2 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
Phillip
posted Sep 21 '23 at 7:10 am
Ok, this might be a bit of a weird one, but I just managed to produce a problem that I've been meaning to reproduce for a while now:
Sometimes, when I and rendering something to disk while the preview is still also rendering, all UF windows start flickering erratically and the program becomes all but uncontrollable. In most cases I can somehow hunt down the window in question and close it or
zalasur
posted Sep 22 '23 at 2:42 am
I've been playing around with the animation feature lately and have been attempting some fairly simple Mandelbrot zooms at low magnification. I created an AVI file for a 15 second video (both 60fps and 30fps) at 3840x2160 resolution, but when I tried to load it up I get an error that the video file is unplayable due to possible corruption. I attempted to play the file under 4 different media play
Spizzi
posted Sep 16 '23 at 7:55 pm
Hi All,
I have uploaded a new version of SlopeMandNewton, this versione presents 10 sets, all compatible with the last one, now i can share also the parameters.
I was wondering, is there anything I regret about this fractal community that I've known for 20 years now?
Yes, there is something, I have lost several contacts due to different political views, I will start by saying that I don
