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Sometimes, It's just a question of figuring out which triangle is doing and modifying its shape, size or position until you get a crisper image. But - that might change the look of the flame more than you'd like.
Another thing to try is to play with the Weight value of each triangle - in the Transform tab. I THINK, the higher the weight, the less fuzz but it might be the other way around.
And you can increase the Filter Radius when you render to smooth out the fuzzies, as well. I use "3" unless there are thin lines I like, in which case I set it to "2". You can go higher than 3 - maybe try up to like "7". Leave the Oversample at "2". 2x is plenty of anti-aliasing and any higher pushes render times WAY up.
And/or raise the "Quality" to something like "2000" or even "4000". Depending on the speed of your rig, doing all of these things except the Weight adjustments and dorking with the "Pythagorean Polygons" (triangles - lol) increases the render time more than you'd like but hey - good things take time, eh? :-)
good luck!
Rick
Thread: New Fractal Themed Challenge Open and some news | Forum: Fractals
Hi Barb! What's up with the "plain" titles to the images? Are they all now to be called "Entry xxx" rather than having titles?
Rick
Thread: Merry Christmas everybody... | Forum: Fractals
Merry Christmas, Yvonne! I hope Santa brings you (or maybe the Easter Bunny, since you are on a waiting list? :-) a successful surgery and FULL relief from your pain.
c-ya!
Rick
Thread: Galleries with substantive fractal images | Forum: Fractals
I've made a number of quasi-realistic fractal compositions you might want to check out. Maybe a bit TOO much on the compositional multilayering (my term for this type of fractal art) as I see from your site that you might be looking for "purer" fractal forms butanyhow....take a look and see if it's what you are looking for. They are all made up solely of numerous fractals created in Ultrafractal and/or Apophysis with no added vector or "2d" elements and even the masking layers are fractals themselves.
c-ya!
Rick
Thread: New Version of FMF (FerryMan Fractal) Released | Forum: Fractals
Thread: compatibility of apophysis.ucl | Forum: Fractals
Nope - the Apo to UF translation .ucl isn't compatible with any version of Apo after beta 2.05. There are an ever increasing number of new triangle variations in the versions after 2.05 that the ucl doesn't know what to do with. I just ran into the same thing with some flames made with Apophysis2.05Beta2-Zplus (the names of these versions keep getting longer and longer, too! lol) that used the "Curl" variation and it wouldn't open properly in UF. I had to render all the flames with transparent backgrounds and do the composition/arranging of them with Photoshop. I did find that the new version of flam3 is like 10x as fast as the internal renderer. I was able to render decent flames with "300" quality set in no more than 64 seconds! To get the same look, I usually have the internal one set to around "6000". Maybe that could be why it was faster(?)
To assure compatability, I reckon you really shouldn't use anything later than the last non-beta, "supported" version - Apophysis 2.02c. The UF ucl for that version even lets you do mapping of the flames.
I'm sure that, eventually, Susan or Nils will get time/motivation to write us a new .ucl but what do you want for nothin'? They - especially Susan - have already spent a good deal of their personal time trying to keep up with it and I for one appreciate that a LOT. I'm not sure exactly how much she is "in the loop" with the new tweakers of the Apophysis program but I get the feeling that compatability with UF is not a big priority with them and they are making it more and more a stand-alone app. When Mark originally wrote the program, he was also a very accomplished UF user and so made sure there was a good link between the programs.
Rick
Thread: converting upr back to flame | Forum: Fractals
Hi "T" :-) I think I remember a long time ago taking the parameters/values, weights and variation type for each of the triangles - these can be found by scrolling down in the ucl window in UF - and entering all of them into an open flame in Apophysis 1 and I was able to recreate the flame that had been part of a upr sent to the UF Mailing List.
It was pretty tedious work but it did work out and I was even able to use the same gradient by saving it to my UF gradients folder and then accessing that from Apo. I don't know if this is still possible to do with the newer flames generated by the beta versions of Apo 2.02c (2.05 being a "beta" is therefore just a new version of 2.02c, the last "supported" version) that are still being updated. But it sounds like you are looking for an easy way to do this but I'm almost positive there isn't one.
A thought did occur to me - probably it wouldn't work if the structure of the file is changed by exporting it as a upr - but maybe try to just change the file type suffix of the UF file. Change the ".upr" to ".fla" for very old Apo1 and Apo2 betas or ".flame" if you want to try to open in one of the newer versions. I doubt this will work but ya never know until you try? I think I'll give it a shot, myself - - -
Nope, NoGo - Apo 2.05 doesn't open anything and Apo2.02c displays just some dots for either .flame or .fla and Apo 1 says it isn't a valid parameter set. So.....I reckon a pencil and clipboard may be your best bet? One thing, though - I have multiple flames saved into a single .upr file and took one of my old ones and resaved it as its own .upr and maybe that messed it up? If yours are each saved in separate, discrete .upr files of their own, maybe it might work. Doubtful but...
Rick
Thread: www.artfile.ru - Keylogger. | Forum: Fractals
Thanks a TON, Matt. I didn't spend a whole lot of time at that site. They never seem to rip my stuff off - maybe not "pure" fractal enuff. Or maybe they suck - lol. I'm definitely gonna take a squint at my TIF when I get home and look for this. I have a number of anti viral/exploit/malware apps that run but they might miss something. I'll be ticked if they did because I spent $$ for those apps.
Nice to see your smiling face again. :-) If you aren't already re-sacked, let me know somehow where I can find any art that you might still have lurking on the 'net - miss looking at them.
Rick
Thread: Stolen Images | Forum: Fractals
As to the "artists" that have favorites but no images - why not follow the links to the images they fave and see if they fave a lot of work by the same artist(s). As can be seen by some of the threads still in this forum, certain folks are STILL all zenoid and "sick" about the "Hot 20" - which is now called the "Art Charts" or maybe better the Hot 100.
Matt showed a while back that one could game the system by signing up a TON (I think he did like 30!) of junk Hotmail addresses and then using then to sign up as a new user and vote for a certain image. Though, to be fair, I have a few friends who have logons here who aren't artists and they just look around. I think they've contributed a sum total of 3 comments to my stuff in the last couple years but it's nice when they say in person they liked my last pic.
I've occasionally had the same thoughts about some of the no-image members but in the end there's really no way to tell. Though I never make the art chart thingie, it IS nice to know someone really liked one of my pieces and the new system might be more "genuine".
Rick
Thread: Stolen Images | Forum: Fractals
Why they don't have even a simple exploit to defeat the "save picture as" function here is beyond me. I went to a site - forget the name, I think it was mentioned by Robin Foss on the UF mail list - last week and for grins I right clicked to see if it would let me save a pic. A dialog window popped up saying something like "right clicking is prohibited"(sic). GREAT!! - love it!!! IMO, this is THE number ONE feature that should be implemented HERE. It's almost as if the sites like this one and, more blatently, DeviantArt are sort of inviting this kind of theft in the interest of increasing page hits and traffic. There's also a way to place a blank, transparent .png(?) over an image such that, when soemone does a "save pic as", all they get is a blank image file. Yeah, yeah - I've heard all the noise about "determined thieves" but these guys are into ease of ripping and speed and typically either don't have the skill or don't have the time to do more work-intensive stealing.
At DA, they even come right out and say it's ok to download the pix for wallpaper and may even facilitate that. I don't have a problem with that so much but it DOES make it very easy for image thieves and might be why there is so much theft from that site.
I agree with gradient, above - I have personally made "fair" 20"x16" prints on a large format color plotter (not a "printer") that looked fine -especially at a normal viewing distance - and people actually paid me money for. Granted, they were only $20 but that's all these rip sites charge, probably. And these were from "small" 1024x768 rendered .bmp files with no blowing up of the image - just "fit to page" in MS Photo Editor.
I think really there are only two options for "serious" digital artists. Either display absolutely nothing on the web that you hope to sell (this is the advice of my printer, who has made his living doing art festivals for 40 years - digital photo-manips and pottery) or watermark the images you do display. Yeah, I suppose someone could spend hours painting out the watermarks or copyright text like M-frAUD did a little over a year ago but that's WORK and someone would have to have a lot of time and be pretty sure they'd make a good bit of money to go thru all that effort.
Rick
Thread: Stolen Images | Forum: Fractals
Thread: Stolen Images | Forum: Fractals
Judging from the cyrillic characters, this is either a Russian or eastern European site. I think y'll will be pretty much 'shit out of luck' as they say around here. They are prettyunregulated as far as intellectual property and copyright laws and snag whatever they want with impugnity. If you can get hold of their ISP, maybe something can be done but it can be dicey - good luck!
BTW - this is why I water mark all of the pieces I've sold prints of - or hope/expect to - to protect my patrons' rights to exclusivity. They pay a premium for a limited edition print and it wouldn't be good to have their print show up all over the place. Sort of defaces the images a bit but what can you do?
Rick
Thread: Klein Bottles | Forum: Fractals
Ultrafractal has a few algorithms and formulas that will make shapes like these. Specifically, the "3d Spheres" algoritm in the mtz.ucl folder will make a Kleinian bottle shape. And some of Ron Barnett's formulas (reb.ufm) list a "Klein Bottle" - though the one abstract example I saw didn't look like a classic Klein Bottle - or a "Kleinian Group" as some of their modifyable parameters. He has a coloring algorithm called "Kleinian Group Raytrace" that makes soem really cool spheroid patterns but I don't thing they are actually Kleinian "bottle" shapes. Jos Leys writes a lot of formulas for Ultrafractal that produce shapes like this too, though most are his private ones that he doesn't give to anyone else to use because - I think - they might only make one specific shape and I reckon then everybody would make the same thing if they had them.
Good luck!
Rick
Thread: Chat Room Survey | Forum: Fractals
I used to use the old fractal chat thingie to walk folks thru my tutorials or help with any problems they were having with them a couple of years ago. It was pretty useful for that kind of thing...
Rick
Thread: newbie q | Forum: Fractals
Change the file type that contains the full address of the file that it is saving the render as to ".png". Depending on which version you have, I think the newest 2.05 beta2z+ or whatever has a box to check for transparent background. Haven't looked to see it for myself because I haven't needed it lately - hearsay...
Rick
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Thread: Question | Forum: Fractals