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
This is an example of what has happened to me any number of times while developing plug-in formulas.
I changed a couple of parameter names in a plug-in. When loading an old upr, I got this message:
The mistake is actually in a plug-in of a plug-in of a plug-in, but the error message refers only to the top-level formula, which is not in error. The missing parameters are not in the top-
gerrit
posted Mar 24 '21 at 7:41 pm
This fractal has "dirt" on it (speckles). If you zoom in on the mandelbar the noise pattern changes so it's not correct. I tried everything with bailout and even added precision but the problem remains. Actually with added precision the picture completely disappears.
I guess I can't attach here, so I'll give upr and Bugs.ufm below,
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JVYV
posted Apr 1 '21 at 10:10 am
Hi all,
You can find the five new fractals of 202103 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 Mar 17 '21 at 1:11 am
Is there a way to set formula parameters programmatically, be displayed in the GUI and allow further manual tweaks?
Eg I have a formula parameter set q1,.., q8 which I give random values programmatically but then want to tweak manually.
I’ve uploaded a new version of jlb.ulb with a new fractal plug-in formula, ThreeLevel. It’s a Barnsley-type formulas; these formulas define a critical value, and at each iteration some combination of z and c is compared to the critical value. If the combination is above the critical value, one formula is used; if below, another formula is used.
ThreeLevel uses two critical values
I have some of the help files that are referenced in online formulas, including ones from lkm, mt, reb, and sam, but I don't have any of the dmj-pub help files. Are all of the help files still available somewhere?
They don't seem to download when I update the formula database.
last week i got an error when I tried to start UF version 5. I had been planning to upgrade to version 6, and I thought this might solve the problem, but it persisted following the new installation.
Liesbeth posed basically the same question in January.
Liesbeth Quak
https://www.ultrafractal.com/forum/index.php?u=/user/profile/10posted Jan 5 at 3:52 pm
She was able to fix
Phillip
posted Sep 1 '20 at 12:18 pm
Hello,
I'm on a roll, so here's a 3rd post. I have intermittently run into an error message when using the explorer to vary color density. This happens when something else (preview or job) is also rendering at the same time. As I move the mouse back and forth over the explorer window, errors occasionally pop up, usually complaining that something is not a floating point value:
Th
In the Formula window, bool params have their caption to the right of their check box. If the check box were to the left of the window, there would be room for a longer caption to be visible.
A very minor request for the next minor release.
Thanks to Frederik for this terrific program.
I tried changing fonts in the formula editor from the default Consolas to something else, like Times New Roman or another serif font. These other fonts are not mono-space, but they display as if they were mono-space, fixed-width and ugly, so not really usable. Of the Windows fonts, only the true mono-space fonts—Consolas, Courier New, and Lucida Sans Typewriter—are useful.
Not a b
From reddit:
Anon_Ymou5:
Can you please tell me which formula you used for this image?
https://www.deviantart.com/jockc/art/91395d-137310559
Same formula for this?
jockc:
For awhile I was playing around with generated/mutated formulas (using some software I wrote to do the mutation)... These two images were made with a couple of those. I never added any of those formulas t
JVYV
posted Jan 31 '21 at 3:16 pm
Hi all,
No new fractals this month.
You can find all the 1998 - 2020 collections at the cloud of Microsoft:
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=2AB35EAF574CA6CE!1034&authkey=!ALIZio6ZmgV1aAo&ithint=folder%2ctxt
Greetings from Belgium,
Jan Vyvey
Hi, after I downloaded UF6 on my new pc I get a bug report and can't open the program. What could have happened?
Here is the report:
JVYV
posted Jan 1 '21 at 11:42 am
Hi all,
No new fractals this month.
You can find the whole 2020 collection and the older collections 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 Nov 30 '20 at 7:59 pm
Hi all,
5 nice fractals this month.
You can find them and the older collections at the cloud of Microsoft:
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=2AB35EAF574CA6CE!1034&authkey=!ALIZio6ZmgV1aAo&ithint=folder%2ctxt
Greetings from Belgium,
Jan Vyvey
The help file "Rendering the animation" says for compression to use the Cinepak Codec by Radius for Windows. My list of compressions is
(Uncompressed)
Logitech Video (I420)
Intel IYUV Codec
Microsoft RLE
Microsoft Video 1
Microsoft YUV
Microsoft YUV
Toshiba YUV Codec
Microsoft YUV
(Yes, Microsoft YUV is there three times.)
For a
I happened to find out that certain formulas can no longer be used in UF5. This applies to mmf.ufm. In UF6 is a totally new series mmf.ufm.
I don't know if it applies to more formulas.
Now two examples with just two layers, a top layer for the lines and a bottom layer to color the cells. Here’s one with 200 rectangles. Because cells are colored with index equal to n/Nmax, shuffling the colors often gives a more pleasing result.
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200Rectangles {
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2zt5m0s7O7SyZ
Years ago, rkb.ulb included code that allowed the making of Mondrian-type images, but it is no longer in that file. I thought about this for a long time and decided to develop such code, though mine is totally different. (The rkb code used Trap Shape, and mine is entirely in the outside coloring.) Here’s an example of the result. Not as good as Mondrian’s, but reminiscent. And not at
In the Range field of the Exploring tab, I can't enter a number like 1e-7 or 1e5. However, if I enter .00001, UF changes this to 1e-5 and I can edit the number.
Also in the Range field, I can't enter a number like 1.5, as the decimal point is immediately deleted. However, I can enter .5, which UF changes to 0.5, and I can then change the 0 to 1.
This behavior seems limited to the Range fi
JVYV
posted Nov 2 '20 at 9:41 am
Hi all,
Sorry but no fractals this month.
You can find the older collections 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 debugging a new formula. All the printing so far is in the constructor. I get many more lines of printing than I expected, some of the same things over and over.
I thought that the constructor was only invoked once.
When is it really invoked? How can I avoid the excess printing?
JVYV
posted Oct 1 '20 at 12:15 pm
Hi All,
There were three fractals last month.
You can find them and the older collections 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 been working for some time on ways to generate new fractal shapes, and also to be able to switch easily from Mandelbrot type (M-type) to Julia type (J-type). Here is what I’ve come up with.
UltraFractal formulas usually depend on two complex values, z and c. Usually z starts with the pixel value and changes throughout the iterations. Usually c does not change with the iterations; for
I have a square fractal, say 600x600 in the UF6 window. If I change it to 900x600 in the Image tab, the apparent magnification changes. I want to make it wider without changing the center or the apparent magnification. Is there a formula for changing Magnification in the Location tab that will do this?
