Hello,

The new release of Incendia EX, is now available at Incendia.Net
This release includes Geometrica, the mesh generator for Incendia.

Among the new features that I have included in this release, is a Mandelbrot set (experimental!), Quaternionic Kleinians, many new baseshapes, a lot of new random fractal generators,  JPG, PNG, GIF and TIFF support for textures, dmaps, backgrounds and surface maps, several bug fixes, and many other things

Remember: Incendia is a Donationware program and donations are really needed!!

Yours

Aexion

ps. Unlike most coders, I'm a mere mortal, so there will be bugs, if find one, please let me know!.
pps.  Now, time to continue with Aural, my other fractal program, the musical one..
ppps. The Mandelbrot set interface is horrible, I know.. Next release I will code something better, I promise!

Hello,

Many requested me about the animations that I have recently rendered using Incendia EX.
Since Incendia only render the image frames, you must assemble them on other software.
There are zillions of programs for assembling videos, but for formats like Animated Gif and Animated PNG, there are very little.

Here are the facts, the tools and the procedure that I follow with some examples:

Animated GIF:
Pros, Small files, faster load times, and there are a lot of tools for making them.
Cons, Only 256 colors! and just one transparency level.

Tools that I use:
IrfanView
VirtualDub

My procedure:
I first use IrfanView batch processing to lower the color depth, from 24bit to just 256 colors with the Floyd Steinberg dithering enabled! (important!), also the images are scaled down here..
Then, I use VirtualDub to open the image files (just by selecting the first one) and then exporting them to a GIF animation.

Examples:




Animated PNG or APNG,
Pros,  Full color support, 256 transparency levels.. You can see the animations in their full color range.
Cons, Animations can only be seen  in Firefox and Opera (and in Google Chrome with an extension), big file sizes and very few tools for making them.

Tools that I use:
IrfanView
APNG Anime Maker
The Gimp

My procedure:
Irfanview for scaling (no color reduction is needed!), then I load the images on APNG Anime Maker and export them using the maximum compression (9).
Just a note, APNG anime maker don't works directly with my Incendia PNG files, no idea why, I just use Infarview to make the files.
For scaling with alpha transparencies, I use the GIMP (no idea why IrfanView didn't works for them).

Examples (go to the deviation pages in order to see the animations, also, only Firefox and Opera!):



If anyone has better tools or better procedures, please let me know!

Just another thing:
Many, Many Thanks to the Anonymous User that yesterday have sended to me a 3 month subscription!!

Aexion


ps. If there are interest on this, I can write a tutorial!

Hello,

The first release of Incendia EX IV  is now available at Incendia.Net
There are several new features on  Incendia, (such as real time animation preview, and neon baseshapes) and I consider this first release as a test.  Next release will have better features (The GPU version, for example, the engine is ready, but i need to finish the porting of the fractal types to it, also need to add the transformation support to the animations).

I have included a little program called Quilts, that generates an infinite amount of Square Quilt attractors. you can use them for texturing as well as desktop backgrounds.
The donors version also includes the Snowflake Generator, that also generates an infinite amount of 3d snowflakes.


For more information, please visit the IncendiaWiki
Here is a  Very Simple Animation Tutorial.
(I'm currently writing more!)

Remember: Incendia is a Donationware program and donations are really needed!!

Yours

Aexion

ps. Hope that all goes well
pps. As soon as possible I will write the animation tutorial.
ppps. Very soon, my second fractal foundation, since two (actually four!) are better than one..

Hello,

Many, Many Thanks to all who have featured my work yesterday and today!!, in special to `SuicideBySafetyPin who have organized this Inspiration Station!

It's a big surprise that left me speechless!

What a day! my gallery has blazed in visits and I have received  a lot of fav and comments!!

So, again,

Thanks for all!



Oh, I forgot.. in few days, I will release Incendia EX IV (with a little surprise )..

Hello,

I have been lately playing with the escapetime algorithms and while my results are pretty crude, its has been fun..
They are at the end of this post..

Now its time to return to Incendia, need to write that laser and other magics tutorial!.
Does anyone want any other type of Incendia tutorial?


Yours

Aexion

ps. If you ask about why theres not an escapetime generator on Incendia, thats because  I often found the IFS algorithms strangely attractive, so I move very little away from them..

Hello,

I have posted the Transparency tutorial in the IncendiaWiki, here is the link:
Transparencies

Also, there are several new Incendia 1.5 example parameters  in the Tutorial pages:
Example Parameters

Later I will write the tutorials about how to render hot glowing plasma and other metamagical effects.

Yours,

Aexion

Hello,

There's a new release of Incendia 1.5 on Incendia.net

This release is a bug fix version of the first Incendia release.

The bugs fixes are:
1. The baseshape editor browser bug (sometimes not showing the right baseshape).
2. The strange open file dialog that appeared on the baseshape Array control.
3. The Maximize and Minimze bug. On some systems, when Incendia was minimized and maximized, it showed nothing but a black window.   

I also made few changes on the append baseshape option and added some new files (mostly dmaps and textures).

For more information about Incendia 1.5, please visit the IncendiaWiki
(I'm currently writting the docs!)
Remember: Incendia is a Donationware program and donations are really needed!!

Yours

Aexion

ps. If you find a bug, please let me know!

Hello,

The first release of Incendia 1.5 is now available at Incendia.Net
I made several changes on the main engine of Incendia and I consider this first release as a test.
If all goes well, then there will be a second release with more support files and several new options
that many users has requested.

For more information, please visit the IncendiaWiki
(I'm currently writting the docs!)
Remember: Incendia is a Donationware program and donations are really needed!!

Yours

Aexion

ps. If you find a bug, please let me know!

Friends,

The Father of Fractal Geometry has passed away on October 14 at age of 85:
[link]

I cannot express the sad feeling that I have.
He was the creator the fractal geometry and the main influence of all of my works. His discoveries gives us an insight of how nature works, from the coast line up to the shape of galaxies and even the shape universe.

Rest in Peace.

"Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line."
                    Benoit Mandelbrot, The Fractal Geometry of Nature

Hello,

I have updated Incendia to version 1.4, so you can download it from Incendia.Net

This version has all of the EX version features, including mesh exports.
For more information, please visit the IncendiaWiki

Important note:This version is compiled for standard computers and will not work on very old ones. Later I will release a version compatible with old computers.

Remember: Incendia is a Donationware program and donations are really needed!!

Yours

Aexion

Hello

I have uploaded to the server the third iteration of Incendia EX.
If all goes well and there are no bugs, it will turns to be the next Incendia (v1.4), so let see what happens.

Owners of Incendia HR (and EX) who want to test it, please let me know. (send me an email, please)

For the features, just look at the wiki page:
[link]

Aexion

Hello

Today one of my fractals:



is featured as a Daily Deviation
Special Thanks to for featuring it!!
I feel honored

About Incendia EX 3:
Most probably, during this week I will release Incendia EX 3 to Friends and Donors, so stay in touch.
Meanwhile, you can download Incendia 1.3 from Incendia.net
EX 3 will be the last of the experimental versions of Incendia. Once all is clear and stable, it will turns into Incendia 1.4

Hello,
This is something that I have been noticing for more than a year and I want to share:

Google visits every day millions of forums and indexes millions of images from around the world ..
That makes position on Google is very very difficult, as an image to go in the first or second page, the same has to be visited by a lot of people around the world ..

Fractal Art detractors always say:"Painted formulas aren't art..they are just painted formulas".. And in my personal case, the artists that I know outside of the net always didn't consider fractal art as "art" because "painted formulas are unable to express any feelings"..

However, if you search in google the word "Loneliness" and select view images, you will discover that in the second page,  between the images of lonely people ..there is a fractal..

Here is the link for those want to do the search:
[link]

and for the fractal:
[link]

The fractal itself is so far the most visited on my rfractal.net gallery, for more than a year..and in some cases (near the Valentine's Day) the number or visits grows by a large amount..

This ultimately shows that fractal art reflects the artist in the same way that a drop of water can reflect the universe...

Oh well...this is only a personal thought...(and a personal triumph, because those artists who always say to me "you're not an artist" cannot deny that! )


Aexion

Hello,

Two tutorials for Incendia EX are now avaliable on the Tutorials section of the Incendia Wiki. Both tutorials are for the new gradient options.
I'm also writing more tutorials for Incendia, mostly centered on transparencies. I will post them once they are finished.

Yours

Aexion

Hello

I have uploaded to the server the second iteration of Incendia EX, this time centered on colors (as you have seen many coloured renders in my lastests posts).
I'm very tempted to release it as v1.4 but it doesn't have all the features that I have planned, but most probably the next iteration will become Incendia 1.4.
Owners of Incendia HR (and EX) who want to test it, please let me know. I will try to distribute it among requestors, but if I miss someone it is due to a human error (im a human, but im seriusly considering to create a mail list to solve this problem!). Scorners and other malefactors who send me hatemails, I warn you: your mail will be cheerfully ignored


Aexion

Hello

I have started to write several tutorials for both Incendia and Incendia EX, since I have noticed that they were really needed (in special on Incendia EX).
You can access them from IncendiaWiki
Since more are comming, you can follow them from the Twitter widget located at the Incendia Community webpage.

Those who have recuested Incendia EX and didn't received the access links, thats because I have stopped the release due to the fact that the Mesh Generation tutorial was really needed. I will restart again the release.

Aexion

A bit of History..

When I originally designed Incendia, there were a lot of features that I had added to the program, features such as gradient colouring, transparencies, mesh exports and the like..
Also, there was a large list of fractals that were coded in the program.

A brief look at my DA gallery can show some of those early renders:

But when I released the first Incendia Betas, I discovered that while the program worked very well for me, most people wanted it easy and fast to use.. So, instead of adding all the features that I had originally devised, and all fractals, I just concentrated on the Interface and on the program speed.

I made new interface features and tried a large optimization methods, but also removed the fractals in order to gain speed, and also, I never integrated all features such as the gradient renderings, due to the fact that this impacted on the overall program speed.

Original Incendia used High Rez precision for the renderings, and that also causes slowness in the program.. then, I received messages like:"Your Slow program is slower than dead tortoises"

Even worse, many were writting journals about how slow Incendia was..
So, I lowered Incendia's internal precision more than eight times, so the renders were less accurate but much faster.
Also, I never added features that impacted on the program speed..

And Incendia went off with a little fractal list and with very little rendering features..
Even the original baseshape list was reduced and in every release, I discarded all that slowed the program down..
For example..mesh exports were supported by Incendia more than two years ago..

but, since it slows the main rendering speed, they were removed..

The same happened to the animations..

All cut down because for every release I was completely scared of speed issues..

Now its over..
I have decided to divide the whole Incendia stream in two:

1. The standard Incendia, that in every release, has new fractals, new features and the like and
2. Incendia EX, that is an experimental (and expanded) version of Incendia..

In Incendia EX, I will add all of the things that I want, taking little care of the speed at first (features first, optimizations later), then when an EX version turns out to be better than the current Incendia version, it will become the next Incendia release..

For now, the first iteration of Incendia EX is centered on the mesh output..
It's now available to the owners of Incendia HR and to anyone who would like to make a donation to help me continue my work on Incendia.

I must mention that unlike Incendia, Incendia EX iterations(releases) will go faster because I'm adding features and experimenting with them. Those who want it, must be warned, an EX release can happens every week (instead of Incendia that happens every six months or so..) and in some cases, if a feature is not good, it will be removed.

There are several new fractals in actual EX iteration and I will add them to Incendia 1.3 soon

Hello

Many, Many Thanks to for the donation of an entire year of Deviantart subscription!!


To her and to many thanks for having helped me with the subscription!!

Aexion

Hello

Many Thanks to for giving me a month of subscription.. Mine was nearly over and thanks to her I have another month on DA
I was silently waiting for the axe since I cannot renew it for the moment

Aexion

Dear Friends

I have updated Incendia to version 1.3, so you can download it from Incendia.Net
This version has several new features (such as the Symmetry module, for example).
Also, I have added a Wiki to the web site, so be sure to visit the IncendiaWiki

Remember, Incendia is a Donationware program and donations are really needed.

Yours

Aexion