UprMash

From Ultrafractal Wiki

A magnet fractal, mashed into lots of layers using uprMash

A nova fractal, with motion blur added by animating the relaxation

A mandelbrot fractal, interpolating the real exponent from -3.0 to 6.0 ish in difference mode with uprMash

Another frame of the same mandelbrot fractal, interpolated

UprMash is a tool written by Dan Wills to generate layers for a fractal to create fractal motion blur effects (by interpolating fractal parameters) and lots of other effects. It can also be used to generate animation.

Initial version

The initially released version was a command-line python script, and it worked from two layers, generating layers 'between' them.

Standalone exe version

The new version is a standalone EXE (converted using py2exe) with a GUI, which works on animated upr's (and generates animated results too).

It is also able to decode compressed UPR which makes it a lot more useful.

How to use

This is the 'extremely short version' from the uprmash wiki

1. Save an animated UPR in UltraFractal.
2. Switch to uprMash.
3. Press "Refresh".
4. Press "Mash".
5. Press "CopyToClipboard".
6. Paste the result into UltraFractal.

Links

• UprMash wiki
• examples using the old uprMash
• Early tests with uprMash on youTube
• video uprMashes on picasa

Screenshot

This is v0.0.8: (it's very much WIP so expect this to change)