Ultra Fractal
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Original author(s) | Frederik Slijkerman |
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Developer(s) | Frederik Slijkerman |
Initial release | February 8, 1999 |
Stable release | 6.05
/ 9 July 2022 |
Operating system | Windows,macOS |
Available in | English,German,Spanish |
Type | Fractal Renderer |
License | Proprietary |
Website | www |
Ultra Fractalis afractalgeneration and renderingsoftware application.The program was the first publicly available fractal software which featured layering methods previously only found in image editing software.[1]Because of this, the program has become popular for use in the creation offractal art.
Ultra Fractal iscommercial software,but an evaluation version is freely available. Theunregisteredversion createswatermarkedrenders.
Features[edit]
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Ultra Fractal israsterbased.[2] The program works using a similar paradigm toPhotoshop,allowing multiple layers to be combined usinglayer blending modes,transformations,and custom fractalformulas.Fractal formulas, coloringalgorithms,and transformations may be written by users, and a large number of such formulafilesare available in a public formuladatabase.Fractals may becopiedfrom the interface and pasted as plain text into anemail.There is a busymailing liston which many users post their parameter sets.[citation needed]
Calculation usingarbitrary precision arithmeticis supported, allowing users to zoom to a magnification of 104000.
TheGUIis customizable with a dockableMDI.The software calculatesstatisticsabout the fractal that is being previewed. Other features include fullscreen mode, color cycling, a render queue,distributedrendering calculations, and a detailed help file. Version 4 added support foranimationsand improvedflame fractalrendering.
Formulae fromFractint,an early and widely used piece offractal-generating software,have been converted to an UltraFractal formula file.[citation needed]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Kelley, Alice (2000). "Layering techniques in fractal art".Computers & Graphics.24(4): 611–616.doi:10.1016/S0097-8493(00)00062-5.
- ^Leys, Jos (June 2005). "Sphere inversion fractals".Computers & Graphics.29(3): 463–466.doi:10.1016/j.cag.2005.03.011.