chaotica 0.4 by lyc

heya, no problem.

1. use the beta build linked in #Aposhack, it has fixed alpha and many improvements.

2. load the params you used to render first, then restore state. sorry for the confusion!

hi alexey, chaotica aims to be both higher performance and higher quality than apo. a lot of "variations" are built in, and work in the 64bit build to allow really high resolution printing (above 2GB). it's written in highly efficient c++ and is fully multithreaded.

stay tuned for more info on chaotica if you're interested, there will finally be some news soon

correct, unfortunately DC isn't supported at the moment

hi mario, i looked very quickly at your parameters, and they appear to use a final transform with colour that isn't 0. this is handled in a very non-standard way by apo7x (unlike all the other flame apps, like flam3 and normal apo, etc etc) and chaotica doesn't try to support this terrible hack, sorry!

unfortunately apo seems to be quite picky about the chaotica path, and i'm not sure exactly how it wants to be set probably the easiest way to use chaotica, is just to paste the params into chaotica via the clipboard (ctrl+c in apo, ctrl+v in chaotica) and then edit the resolution etc from there as needed.

thanks for trying it out!

sorry for the super late reply, and thanks for checking it out! i've just released the 0.48 version, which has a lot of bugfixes and is generally a lot nicer to use

thanks!

the free version is indeed limited to 1920x1920, larger images being deemed commercial use. there should be a nearly linear relationship with resolution and time to render an image to the same sampling level (SL); this isn't quite so in practice because of cache effects etc, but since it doesn't render in "slices" it should scale just fine with resolution. the real problem is low efficiency (which can be due to high zoom, or many invisible iterations), and for that there are solutions too...

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1. the imaging is indeed not 100% compatible, and will normally requires adjusting while it's rendering. this can be done in realtime while it's rendering, without restarting, and is anyway suggested to explore the possibilities for making the best final image! (in the 0.47 beta in my journal, there is now also colour curve editing.)
2. loonie is built-in if i recall correctly, so it will work in both the 32bit and 64bit version without needing the plugin DLL, and runs much faster than the plugin. if you're seeing a problem, it's likely something else (using DC or 3D plugins?) - feel free to note me the parameters.

thanks for checking out chaotica!

could you note me the parameters please? i've fixed a few bugs in 0.45, like in glynnia (which i've seen used to make hearts before). besides this, please make sure if you're using plugins that you're using the 32bit chaotica, with the required dll plugins in its plugins folder.

thanks for checking it out

I needed to add that I'm using APO7X15. Thank you!

good point fixed the links

email is probably best, thomas.ludwig@gmail.com

thanks for the kind words!

you should just check it out the realtime mode is fun, hold down alt and then drag in the viewport with LMB and RMB to pan and zoom.

[link] <-- getting started video by `FarDareisMai

which version of mac os are you using?

the performance/quality picture is much better overall, especially for the 64 bit version; if you like i can send you some sample images in a note.

the biggest differences between the two in my opinion, is the much higher image quality and the ability to render very large images by using all of a modern 64 bit computer's memory (instead of only 2 or 3gb which 32 bit windows applications can access). that it's faster is a bonus, and i have big plans for chaotica in the future, to turn it into a real next generation fractal app