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Just released JWildfire V3.50 which is a rather big update. Again, thanks Rick Sidwell, Jesus Sosa and Brad Stefanov for their valuable contributions!

Changes in short:

• simplified and faster user interface, no more nested windows
  
• support for Java 10 (but you can still use Java 8)
  
• affine3D-transform and affine3D-random-flame-generator which creates nice 3d-shapes
  
• lots of new variations/transforms/formulas
  
• lots of optimizations
  

Complete changes (you can also see this list inside the program at the any time, see Help->List of changes ):

• removed the desktop and the Navigator-window in order to simplify and speed-up the user-interface
  
• faster app-startup, there are now 3 random flames generated at start (and it is still faster than before)
  
• improved the resize-behaviour/speed of the main-editor-window
  
• support for Java 10 (Please note, that JWildfire still works with Java 8 and Java 8 ist still supported by Oracle.But, Java 10 is also supported now, and when you want to use the UI-scaling-feature, you will need Java 10.)
• many new variations:
  
• affine3D (ported from Flamelet)
• anamorphcyl (Jesus Sosa)
• dc_kaleidotile (Brad Stefanov)
• disc3 (Brad Stefanov)
• glynns3subfl (Jesus Sosa)
• gpattern (Jesus Sosa)
• hyperbolicellipse (Jesus Sosa)
• lazysensen (Brad Stefanov)
• lozi (Brad Stefanov)
• nsudoku (Jesus Sosa)
• projective (Brad Stefanov)
• pulse (Brad Stefanov)
• pTransform (Rick Sidwell)
• q_ode (Brad Stefanov)
• ringsubflame (Jesus Sosa)
• sunflower (Jesus Sosa)
• sunvoroni (Jesus Sosa)
• taprats (Jesus Sosa)
• terrain3D (Jesus Sosa)
• vibration2 (Brad Stefanov)
• wangtiles (Jesus Sosa)
• new “Affine3D”-random-flame-generator (also taken from Flamelet)
  
• updated the jsyntaxpane-library (used for syntax-highlighting while editing text) to version 1.1.5
  
• increased the default font size for the script-editor inside JWildfire
  
• internal optimization/API-changes: extended the API of variations:
  
• there is now an initOnce()-Event which is only called once for the first thread (unlike to init() which is called for each thread). This new event should be used for heavy init-operations (like loading and parsing a file) 
• the following variations use the new API and should behave more smooth (=use less memory and CPU) when initializing for a render:
• wangtiles
• terrain3D
• dla_wf
• dla3d_wf
• knots3D
• sattractor3D
• improved the speed of the following variations:
  
• dustpoint
• knots3D
• sattractor3D
• improved the stability of the following variations (Rick Sidwell):
  
• brownian_js
• dragon_js
• glynnsim3
• ghosperisland
• hilbert_js
• htree_js
• koch_js
• lsystem_js
• rsquares_js
• tree_js
• new property tinaLSystemMaxLength in the prefs to specify maximum size of the generated string for the L-System variation
  
• bug fixes for symmetry order and animation control update
  
• fixed a bug regarding rendering motion-blur
  

Just click the “Random flames” button to start playing around and have fun 🙂

Here is the download-link: www.andreas-maschke.com/?page_…

A painterly-flame-fractal-art video made just for fun.

This video shows some fractals I made using a painterly style I recently developed.

Technical info: All fractals where created using Flamelet on iPhone and post-processed using Impresso on Mac. The music was made in MusicMaker, while the whole video was assembled in Vegas Movie Studio.

Cheers!