JWildfireSwan

Description

JWildfireSwan ("Swan" for short) is the successor to JWildfire, a very sophisticated flame fractal generator whose roots go back some 25 years. While JWildfire is something like the Swiss army knife of flame fractals, Swan is a much more modern and streamlined application that fully supports GPU rendering. Swan not only renders much faster, but also produces images with much better quality and much more fractal detail, as the rendering algorithm has been redefined from the ground up to not compromise on quality. Also, fractal animation is a first-class citizen in Swan, which means that there is now a realtime aninmation player that allows you to preview the animation in real time. And, all random flames generated by the app are animated by default. The application has a lean design. Therefore, it does not support all the functions you may be familiar with from JWildfire. This is to make the user interface simpler, more responsive and less complex. But you can assume that the essential functions are available. And if you are missing something, you are welcome to submit a feature request. Key Features of JWildfireSwan - fluid editing: real-time preview of changes to the flame attributes - excellent support for fractal animations (all random-flames are animations by default!), also for looped animations - really fast GPU rendering on all platforms - compatibility/interchangeability with JWildfire - more than 600 variations are currently supported, with more in the pipeline - integrated sophisticated random flame and random gradient generators to play effortlessly with endless flames - powerful motion curve editor, which allows also motion-curve-modulation, both by mathematical functions or audio spectrum (fft) - jukebox-module for audio-spectrum-based animations of flame fractals in real time - variation browser that interactively displays the effect of a variation and helps to understand how it works - integrated flame-library with hundreds of curated examples created by the author of the software - powerful curve-based gradient-editor - mutagen module to generate new flames by mutating existing flames - support for audio in the flame-editor (to create audio-reactive animations) - realtime animation preview with audio ----- MandelBro3D — 3D Fractal Rendering Swan includes MandelBro3D, a full-featured 3D fractal renderer with GPU path tracing. Where the flame fractal engine works with 2D iterated function systems, MandelBro3D operates in three dimensions — rendering Mandelbulbs, Mandelboxes, Kleinian groups, and many other 3D fractal types as solid objects with physically-based lighting, materials, and shadows. The combination of both engines in a single application is unique: Swan is both a production-grade flame fractal editor and a production-grade 3D fractal renderer. Flame fractals can even serve as sky environments or object textures inside MandelBro3D scenes, bridging both worlds. MandelBro3D is designed for architectonic fractal art — composed scenes that combine fractal geometry with procedural primitives, boolean operations, and space deformations into deliberate compositions rendered at high visual quality. MandelBro3D Highlights - 212 fractal formulas across 13 categories (Mandelbulb, Mandelbox, IFS, Menger, Quaternion, Kleinian, DIFS, and more), each tested and tuned with sensible defaults. Formulas verified against Mandelbulber2 reference implementations. - GPU path tracing with Monte Carlo integration, configurable bounce depth (1–64), progressive accumulation, and Intel OIDN denoiser support - 5 material types - 85 procedural primitives - 163 procedural textures assignable per object across 4 channels (color, bump, emission, material map), - flexible scene composition with 19 CSG/container operations - hybrid fractals - 6 light types - procedural hair/fur on any object - depth of field - volumetric fog - keyframe animation

Major update with whole new modules: - MandelBro3D: real 3d-fractals, beautifully path-traced - Flame-Painter: very artistic module to compose artworks of flame-fractals And much more! See the release notes inside the application for more comprehensive informations!

Informations

Vendeur

Andreas Maschke

Catégorie

Graphics & Design

Version

4.13.2829

Nécessite

iOS 11+

Taille

228.7 MB

Classification par âge

4+