The Deep Sea Adventure Fractal Challenge for June is still accepting Entries, there is one week to go to get an entry in, the challenge will close midnight one week from today.

 

Jesse at FractalForums has released a New Beta version of MB3D, version 1.7.9.9, this version has included the Long Awaited Transparency Option. Keep in mind this is a Materials Transparency and not a Transparent BG PNG output like Apophysis.

I spent several hours playing with the New version last night, there is not much in the way of info on how the Transparency works but from what I've gathered using it, it works best with d.IFS formulas hence the option box to us the option to only on the d.IFS formulas when using d.IFS/Escapetime formulas in DE Combinates.

The Reflections have been changed also, I assume because Reflections and Refractions(Transparency) go hand in hand, different sides of the same card.

So far I have had no luck with getting any good effects with it, just haven't got it figured out yet but one thing I can say for sure is that Transparency Rendering makes Reflections look like Super High Speed, it is Slooooow.

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