Exper Chaotic Flow

Freestyle design of a bloated pattern due to recursive expansion.

A classical Julia based recursive design.

I’m happy in seeing my own “nimbus 7″ photo featured in the iSGTW (International Science Grid This Week) article about The new Nimbus: first steps in the clouds.
Glad they liked this simple photo!

The Green Bug is a hanging around again.

I’ve recently been in Rome (Italy) for a couple of days.
The are a very small selection of the many photos I took during the trip (I’ll maybe add some more later during the next days).

The Flow may seems chaotic, and mainly it is, but it always maintains its own generative force.

An update to the original Spawner-Soul post.
I’ve found some spare time to finish this small set so here it is the update.

Original one.

This version adds some more support to Flam3 new features.

It now supports the new Interpolation Space tag plus enable_jpeg_comments and enable_png_comments vars.
Updated Flam3 version checking scheme
Little changes to the bat file writing routine ad some minor code clean-up.

Download here (right click / Save As): RenderFlam3_1.3.6.zip

Released under GPL License - http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
Credits or donations are not mandatory but very appreciated especially when using “RenderFlam3″ in commercial production.

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RenderFlam3 main purpose is rendering a sequence of Flames using Flam3 to create animations.
It’s an Apophysis script which cycles through the flames in the Title Window,
sets their time field,
sets their advanced animation tags,
saves them all off to a single flame file,
and then creates a bat file (to the same output path).
Executing the bat file will launch flam3-animate and render the animation’s frames; Flam3 will interpolate all the flames.
RenderFlam3 can create Morph, Sheep or Edge animations.

Changelog
v 1.3.6 - 24 April 2008
+ Updated Flam3 version checking scheme
** corrected onr minor Flam3 README file browsing fault
+ Added support for Flam3 Interpolation Space tag
** needs Flam3 2.7.7 or newer
** default value is Log
+ Added support for Flam3 “enable_jpeg_comments” and “enable_png_comments” vars
** the proper var is written into the bat file
** enable_jpeg_comments set to 1 by default
** enable_png_comments set to 1 by default
+ Little changes to the bat file writing routine
+ Some minor code clean-up

v 1.3.5 - 19 April 2008
+ Implemented new Flam3 version checking scheme
** Needs Flam3 “README.txt” file
** Plain-folder install: automatic version check
** Sub-folder install: supported for 2.7.6 up to 2.7.11
+ Forcing Flam3 path via “flam3path” variable
** see at the end of the main comment
+ Dropped Flam3 2.7.5 support
** Supporting only Flam3 2.7.6 and newer
** Raw-support for Flam3 2.7.7 and newer
+ Secant to Secant2 variation conversion for Flam3 2.7.10 and 2.7.11

v 1.3.4 - 18 April 2008
+ Some small code clean-up

v 1.3.3 - 17 April 2008
+ Apophysis version-indipendent
+ SaveFile Dialog fully supported
+ Added raw support for Flam3 up to version 2.7.11

v 1.3.2 - 7 Nov. 2007
+ Added support for Apophysis 2.07

v 1.3.1 - 25 Oct. 2007
+ Added support for Apophysis 2.06c 3D hack
+ Added support for Flam3 2.7.6
+ Camera Zoom minor bugs fixed
+ Minor updates:
** Some code optimizations
** Better supersample/oversample check
** Bat file: end comment modified
** “LoopKF” named added back

v 1.3 - 19 Oct. 2007
+ Sheep and Edge animations types added.
+ Support for Camera Angle/Rotation property added (needs Apophysis 2.06c beta or newer).
+ Supporting only Flam3 2.7.5
+ Flam3 install check added.
+ Apo version-indipendented Variations check against Flam3 supported ones.
+ Bat files: more advanced options and more comments added.
+ Two different Script versions
** One for Apophysis 2.06c beta , Apophysis 2.06 beta and Apophysis 2.06 beta Z+
** and one for Apophysis 2.05 beta 2, Apophysis 2.05 Z+ beta 2 and Apophysis 2.05 Z+ beta 2 C++
+ Supporting Variation Varibales for: radial_blur, rings2, fan, blob, pdj, perspective, julian, juliascope, curl, move, ngon, disc2, rectangles, super_shape, flower, conic, parabola, pie and split variations.

v. 1.2 beta1 to beta12
+ RAW saving routine added.
+ Main/big updates on the whole script (too much to list).

v. 1.1
+ Saving scheme updated
** It’s now completely resolution indipendent.
** Use “Maintain Aspect Ratio” for perfect matching or Apo’s free scale: may have no perfect matching (depending on flames) but let you scale in no-proportional way.
+ “Maintain Aspect Ratio” added
+ “Animation Loop” added
+ “Copy first flame’s MasterScale/Zoom to each others” added
** This is an hard-coded testing option (no user-request displayed)
** Change the “szcopy” variable value.
+ Verbose messages in Script window.

v. 1.0
+ Initial release.