Zueuk
is thinking...It seems that my Fractal Assembler project is kind of a fail 
I always knew there is a lot to do, and I thought I have time... but my motivation ran out first. Now, especially with all these AI image generation tools, there does not seem to be much interest in fractals, and even I find myself barely interested in the subject 
Someone said that artists make art because they cannot not-make it... And these days I find myself being perfectly fine with not making any fractal art, or writing programs for making it. 
I'd like to officially declare that I am not against the so called "AI art". It is indeed a very interesting and promising technology... I wouldn't use the term "artificial intelligence" with it though, since there does not seem to be any intelligence there (yet?). The best I can do is to call it "artificial imagination".
I do not sell my art as "NFT".
If someone or something tries to sell any of my works as "NFT", it's a scam.
The new editor UI
I wanted to be able to combine different transformations in different ways, but I didn't want to get lost while tracing lines (like here, for example) - the usual way of putting nodes everywhere and linking them together did not sound good for me.
Instead, I decided to place things on screen in the order of computation:
- transformations are applied from top to bottom
- transformations on the same level are either all applied at the same time - like with Sum here, or only one of them is applied - like in Choice back there (that's how it looked like 3 years ago
)
What you see above is a slightly non-trivial "final transformation" for a hyperbolic tiling I made a few months ago.
I certainly find it much easier to work with this, than to manage "xaos links" in Apophysis.
Besides, as I have already said some time before - everything is a transformation. Including the "Sum" - which is a transformation that contains other transformations. This means that it is possible to put anything - not only a simple transformation, but a random choice (also contains other transformations), or another sum inside it.
And finally, here's a low-ish quality render, just to demonstrate the result:
Just in case somebody tries to reproduce this in Apo
"Murl" here is the Apo plugin murl2, and the "Sum" part should actually be a "disassembled" version of my old plugin named polypolar. The tiling itself is obviously a 7x3 hypertile.