APO Formulas in UF
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Zoo,
"If you get time Is there any possibility you might draft up a tutorial on working with The Apo formulae in UF"
For my Iterated Function Systems formula you'll need Apophysis 1.0, which you can get here... [1]
After installation, open it and go to the General tab of the Options Dialog (Tools|Options). In the section titled UPR type select IFS. Go to the IFS UPR tab and check that the Coloring algorithm section has "mt-ifs" in the Identifier field and "mt.ucl" in the File filed. Press OK.
Apophysis 1.0 shows flames. but flames that use only the Linear variation look the same as plain IFS, so set the Variation to Linear (that's Tools|Variation|Linear).
Now do a random batch (File|Random Batch or Ctrl+B) and look through the results until you see something you like. You can also play with the triangles in the Editor.
When you find something you want to export to Ultra Fractal select Copy as UPR from the edit menu (or Ctrl+C), and paste the UPR into Ultra Fractal (as you would a UPR copied from this list). To see a nice shaded black and white IFS fractal open the gradient editor and replace the current gradient with Lighting from Standard.ugr.
If you want colour you may as well work with flame fractals because they look a lot nicer than trying to create coloured IFS. And to work with flame fractals in Ultra Fractal you have a few options...
Apophysis 1.0 will create flame fractals using Erik Reckase's original Flame Fractals formula in enr.ucl. If you go back to the General tab of the Options dialog and select Flame instead of IFS you can then copy UPRs (as explained above) and immediately paste them into UF.
Of course, Apophysis 2.x is a much better program with a lot more features. The only "stable" release (i.e. one that doesn't expire) is the one available from the link above. If you download and install that you'll be able to copy flame parameters that use the Flame Fractals (Apophysis 2.0) formula in Apophysis.ucl. If you've previously had different versions of Apophysis on your computer you might check that in the Coloring algorithm section of the UPR tab of the Options dialog the Identifier field reads "enr-flame-a" (without the quotes), and the File field reads "apophysis.ucl". As with Apophysis 1.0 you select Copy as UPR from the Edit menu and paste into a fractal window in Ultra Fractal.
Finally, you can use the latest beta (2.07) of Apophysis with the Flame Fractals (Apophysis 2.05) coloring algorithm, also in Apophysis.ucl. The beta is available here...[2]
If you've installed Apophysis 2.02 then put this executable file into the folder that was created (c:\Program Files\Apophysis 2.0 by default) and manually create a shortcut to it on your desktop)
I presume that this beta will expire in the future, at which point we can hope that there'll be a new beta to replace it. The most current Flame Fractals formula was designed for Apophysis 2.05 but it will work with this beta as long as you don't use any variations that 2.05 didn't have (which includes any PlugIns). To make sure that you don't use the extra variations go to the Variations tab of the Options dialog and make sure nothing after "blur" is ticked. Also, go to the UPR tab of the Options dialog and now make sure that the Identifier field of the Coloring algorithm section read "apophysis-205".
There are a few things to bear in mind when using Apophysis 2.07...
- You'll get a long list of warnings when you paste \UPRs into Ultra
Fractal. You can ignore these, but they'll happen every time.
- You have to paste the UPR into a new fractal window every time. It won't work if you paste into a window that already contains a flame fractal. One way of avoiding this is to use the Export UPR... option on the File menu to save parameters to a UPR file (you might create an apophysis.upr file in your Ultra Fractal parameters folder and save everything to that).
I hope that answered all of your questions.
Mark
