JWildfire

I can't believe what you get for your money ! I've tried many graphic generating software programs including Fractals and Chaos, but JWildfire really sets the bar ! It's in a league of it's own. There are so many ways to be innovative with this, especially putting the rendering size to full and patiently waiting for the magnificent generated image to appear. Beyond saying this, I'm speechless and very satisfied that my search is over.

This Fractal creator is pretty elaborate in the number of combinations! Its helpful that the program can create some starting sample images that you can then further tweak. Also the option to create similar offspring is great as well.

UPDATE2: The issue was finally addressed! UPDATE: The big question might be "do I want Jwildfire or JwildfireSwan?" I've reported an issue with Jwildfire which has sat for months now - it has to do with keyframe corruption. Hopefully he'll have a look at it soon, but again the economics don't lend themselves to it. I even looked at the source code, but since I'm not really set up for debugging Java at the moment, I gave up on that pretty quickly. I'd say if you're on the fence, and if you're handy enough with Java, then just try Jwildfire for free (go find the source code and clone it from github, and run it under Java - it's doable). Then if it knocks your socks off (and it should), try to figure out how you want to support the developer. I'm really happy with Jwildfire other than that annoying bug. But I'm not sure if I'll be quite as happy with JwildfireSwan... so we'll just see about trying that out - but unfortunately that source code isn't available to run for free. He used Godot for that. Huh. Who'd have thought Godot would provide better flexibility and speed than Java? -------------------------------------- If you're interested, it really is a lot of fun to render animations - I have posted easily over 20 animations either on youtube or Facebook. I haven't made any with music yet, but the *.mp3 import capability which can sync the animation to music also allows that. So freaking cool!!!! But... First of all, the paid-for version seems to be everything the free version is, but with Java installed for you so it "just works". Look for the free version here: https://jwildfire.overwhale.com/ Github: https://github.com/thargor6/JWildfire NOTE: I was also able to get a free version of JWildfire working on an OSX (Mac) machine, but it was a bit of a pain to get there, with OSX complaining "this is not safe software" etc. And I could only get a slightly earlier (5.00) version rather than the latest (8.5) version to work on the Mac. I'm not sure this will do everything I expected, or wanted, but hey - RTFC and change it yourself if you like. The first thing I tried was to make a transform that uses the mandelbrot set. And boy was it weird and not what I expected at all. Then I closed the program, re-opened it hours later, and did EXACTLY the same steps, and POOF! there's the mandelbrot set! Except it's not colored like I expected - it's completely monochrome. So the program is definitely flaky, if I can do the same thing twice and get different results. I'll also want to get some colorization or greyscale for mandelbrot set. I'd say it's probably not quite ready for prime-time, and unless you really want to support the developer (and who doesn't, when it's some very cool fractal tools?) then to learn how to use it you're probably better off just using the free package and make sure you've got Java installed first. Also, if you want to learn the theory behind "flame" fractals, read this white paper: https://flam3.com/flame_draves.pdf And how to make your own Java custom-programmed transformations: http://www.andreas-maschke.de/java/jwildfire_tutorial04.pdf?form=MG0AV3 The game itself does come with a user manual which is sort of helpful, but could have been more richly written for a non-mathematical audience. Instead, the student (ahem... paying customer) is left to research what the author is talking about for themselves. Well... it's fun to learn anyway. The tool is cool in that it will give you randomized stuff if you don't want to figure stuff out and just want pretty pictures or pretty animations quickly. I'm very happy with what I see the tool is capable of, and will be playing with this for creating content, sooner or later.

Crazy stuff out there, believe me.

Este programa es una joyita para los amantes de los fractales, puedes hacer también animaciones increibles. Si no sabes por donde empezar, puedes buscar en youtube, encontrarás muchos tutoriales.

Such a wonderful tool for artwork. This has become my go-to workspace for when I'm feeling creative and want to generate some beautiful backgrounds for my designs. Very proud to have supported this wonderful tool and I urge anyone who has used this application before online to support it by buying it on Steam.

Color previews can be buggy, as well as some bugs with animations mirroring the wrong way, but nothing you can't easily fix in after effects. 9/10, great app.

This is one of the best fractal generators on the market. Highly recommended.