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It doesn’t mean anything

Design: Apophysis 2.03c – Rendering: Flam3 2.7.b8

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Design: Apophysis 2.03c – Rendering: Flam3 2.7.b8

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Design: Apophysis 2.03c – Rendering: Flam3 2.7.b8

Another new but beta version.

The scripts now needs Installation of extra utilities for the correct usage of Sheep related options. Read “Installation” section below.

It’s now possible Extract files only; this was trashed by v.0.7

Some options consistency updates.

Single Batch mode now creates a simple LOG file that it’s automatically deleted at the end of the overall rendering process.
This is expecially useful for long batches: the LOG file can quite easily show at
which point the rendering process was halted (before the end).
Editing and executing the “batch” file again can restart the rendering process.

Create a Sheep Preview Image ala ES (Sheep overall loop-motion).

For better details read “Usage” section.

I’ve quite completed all planned features.

Flame2File v.0.8b (Flame to File)
Download here: Flame2File (Right click – Save As)

Released under GPL License – http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Install:
Download here: Flame2File_Utils.zip (Right click – Save As)
Copy “jpegtopnm.exe“, “pnmcat.exe“, “pnmscale.exe“, “pnmtojpeg.exe“, “libnetpbm10.dll” and “jpeg62.dll” to Flam3 directory (normally “c:\flam3\”).
Flame2File v.0.8 needs them to create the same “Sheep preview image” as ES’s server one.
NOTE:
“jpegtopnm.exe”, “pnmcat.exe”, “pnmscale.exe”, “pnmtojpeg.exe” and “libnetpbm10.dll” are part of “Netpbm” Project: http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/ “jpeg62.dll” is part of “GnuWin32″ Project: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/

Description:
Flame2File is script that extracts Apophysis Flames files to single Flame files.
Useful for ESheep server uploading or Apophysis/Flam3 rendering.
It can also render tem extracted files using Flam3 or Apophysis; starting from v.0.7 it can also create Sheep frames and a Sheep Preview Image ala ES (Sheep overall loop-motion).

Usage:
Save or Show – Extract Flames or simply Show indexed names (useful for Range option).
Show option also create a text File that reports all the indexed names.
Example: “Test.flame” produces “Test.flame_index.txt”

Prefix - sets the prefix for Flame saving; no leading chars added.

Output path – where do you want save the extracted Flames.

Save Range – Extract all Flames, only a sub-range or a single Flame of current Flame file.
Start at n. – first flame
End at n. – last flame

Select preferred Renderer – let you select if you want simply Extract flames out of current Flame file or if you want Extract and Render them using Flam3 or Apophysis

Create single/multiple “batch” files – Flam3 specific option
Let you create a Batch file for every flame or a single batch file for all the extracted flames.
Useful for rendering single or multiple flames in a mouse-click using Flam3.
NOTE: Single “batch” mode also produces a simple LOG file that it’s automatically deleted at the end of the overall rendering process.
This is expecially useful for long batches: the LOG file can quite easily show at
which point the rendering process was halted (before the end).
Editing and executing the “batch” file again can restart the rendering process.

Flam3 software path – Flam3 specific option
Point to Flam3 installation path

Render Quality – self explanatory

Flam3 Batches – Flam3 specific option
Let you select how many Flam3 Motion-Blur you need (using the old Batches mode).
This is no more supported starting at_flam3-2.7 beta 8 (flam3-2.7b8)
The “Batches” tag was replaced by “Passes” tag but Apo Flame class supports only the first one.

Filter Radius – let you select how much filtering do you want apply

Oversample – render using Oversample, let you select Oversample value.

Background Transparency – Flam3 specific option
Activate the Flam3 Transparency – OFF by default

Filetype (jpg/png) – Flam3 specific option – saving file format for Flam3 option
Filetype (jpg/png/bmp) – Apophysis specific option – saving file format for Apophysis option

Make Sheep – Flam3 specific option
Create an ESheep flame and renders the frames using Flam3

Sheep Preview – Flam3 specific option
Render the ESheep flame using a 8 frames Step.
Useful to create a preview similar to the ESheep server one.

Sheep Preview Image Size? Small=0 – Medium=1 – Large=2 - Flam3 specific option
Create a Preview Image ala ES (Sheep overall loop-motion).
Select the Preview Image resolution; the image is created using a 4×4 combo out of the Sheep Preview frames.
Small = 256×192 – Medium = 640×480 – Large = 1280×960
NOTE: it’s only available when Filetype option is “jpg”.

Delete Sheep Frames? – Flam3 + “Sheep Preview Image Size?” specific option
Delete Sheep Preview frames.
Useful if you want store the “Sheep Preview Image” only.

Provocative? Who knows…

It’s NOT-ART [1]

Design: Apophysis 2.03c – Rendering: Flam3 2.7.b8

It’s NOT-ART [2]

Design: Apophysis 2.03c – Rendering: Flam3 2.7.b8

This is an interestiong Chaoscope utility.

Ani4Chaoscope by François “Axone Man”
This program allows you to build a set of Chaoscope projects for animation purposes.

Download Ani4Chaoscope
Download Ani4Chaoscope Manual
François “Axone Man” Home Page: http://www.axoneman.com/Programmes_fractals.html

Forgot to post it before… sorry!

Download Chaoscope v.0.31

FIXES
- Missing OpenGL extensions were ignored, causing Light and Plasma to crash
- Switching to “Opacity Mask” in Save as dialog set the path to Parameters folder
- View was udpated five times when Solid mode View Settings was loaded or during Batch Processing
- Changing Batch processing “project step” via text box wasn’t updating “first project” controls
- Zooming out could cause the render to scroll out of the frame
- On XP, palettes could be displayed behind the main application window
- View wasn’t refreshed when overlapping view was minimized
- Creating very large projects could fail even with sufficient RAM
- Simple Preview attractor color wasn’t updated correctly when background color was changed

Chaoscope Home page: http://www.chaoscope.org/

This is my first design using the new Apophysis 2.05 beta plus Flam3 2.7 final combo; nothing much more to say.

Left unspoken – Ref. round-n3-53-10-2

Design: Apophysis 2.05 beta – Rendering: Flam3 2.7

In so many words (you don’t care anyway)

Design: Apophysis 2.03c – Rendering: Flam3 2.7.b8