Newbie question...

How do I install a texture pack
and once installed, how do I access
a specific texture?

I wish to add a texture layer above a "normal" one.

Where do I put the "ucl" , "ufm" and "upr" files from the pack (Exactly) ?

The "instructions" mentions something about a "define" term
in the "Add Layer" button... but can't find that button anywhere.

HELP!!!

Can anyone tell me why ALL the "Formula Documentations",
in the Public Formulas Page, are not available (or deleted)?
Maybe I can be told where to find them?
J.P.

Usually these artifacts go away after I turn up the perturbation precision, but this location and angle combination seems to be an exception. Is it possible to turn off perturbation on a per-layer or per-parameter basis? Or globally?



Fractal1 {
fractal:
width=1536 height=1536 layers=1
layer:
opacity=100
mapping:
center=-1.7400623825793405635827908259941757369297

As a Newbie, I've successfully done the tutorials in the Help section
and eager to learn more about UF, and I'm wondering where to go from here?

Are there more tutorials available out there I'm not aware of?

What about Janet Parke's courses? Being a decade or more old, are they still "relevant" and worth going through?
I'd be willing to purchase them should this be the case.

A

Hello,

I recently made a fractal formula file that contains all my unpublished and unpolished stuff, as I have repeatedly been asked to publish all of it. I would like to put them in a separate .ufm file in the public database, but I can not figure out how to make a separate file other than phs.ufm.

Am I overlooking something?

I'm trying to escape Windows/Microsoft but UF 6 is one of the few programs keeping me on Windows. 😭

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I hope the title suggest it all. Could some please explain the main differences?

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

I recently discovered that the first public release (Ultra Fractal 2) was February 8, 1999. That was 25 years ago this year, and at the time we didn't know it and didn't celebrate the anniversary.

I don't know about version 3, but version 4 was released in 2006, version 5 in 2008, and version 6 in 2017.

I first bought Ultra Fractal 4 in September 2006. How about you?

Since I've been out of the loop for so long, I have no idea even how old Uf6 is. It seems like this forum is seldomly visited by people, the mailing list seems to be long dead, the showcase only contains ancient stuff, the pdf manual is incomplete, the online manual contains dead links, and to top it off, the subdomain for the public formula library seems to be dead in the water. Is there any hop

Have not used the application for some time UF6 Cannot open any formulas with error code as above and message "Cloud file provider is not working"

I recently picked UF.5 up again to do some math experiments. I wrote a coloring algorithm, but calculations became very slow at a zoom depth of 1e24. I read UF.6 was a lot faster and maybe perturbation could also help (as I'm using Mandelbrot).

Opening the fractal in UF.6, the coloring algorithm doesn't seem to work anymore. I tried loading a non-perturbation version of Mandel, but it still d