quadrium | flame for Mac1.3

Name: quadrium | flame
Price: 39.96 $
Rating: 5 (53 reviews)

02 December 2007

Create and animate flame fractals.

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What is quadrium | flame for Mac

quadrium | flame is an application allows you to create and animate "flame fractals". It combines a wide variety of mathematic transformations (going well beyond traditional techniques to include such things as strange attractors) with an interface designed to let you easily explore the vast realm of possible images, allowing you to literally "grow" you image. You don't need an advanced degree in math to be able to create rich and fascinating images, suitable for websites, presentation backgrounds, cards, CD covers, brochures, or fine art prints. You can even create animations, bringing your creations to life.

Features:

Interactvely build your image
Compose your images by combining 24 different transformations and attractors, including support for 3D transformations
Live feedback as you directly manipulate the flames
Warp your image with 37 different topologies, applied either globally or on a per flame basis
Color both based on per flame color as well as gradient (and any combination of the two), with five different coloring schemes
Full featured gradient editor
Multiple 'layers' allows you to control what flame influences what other flames
'Traps' to add unique new special effects to your images
Special 'fake 3D' effects to add depth to even your plain 2D images
Mutate your image to explore countless variations
"Breed" your images together to combine their features creating a new images.
Fine tune your images by explicitly adjusting their various settings, or use the "tweener" to adjust large numbers of settings all at once
Animate your creations, generating QuickTime movies (including high resolution movies)
Render high resolution versions of your creations (up to 600 dpi with 4:1 anti-aliasing)
Create AppleScript scripts to directly manipulate your image, allowing you to automate common effects
Share your images locally via Bonjour, or globally via your .Mac account
Create image workflows by post-processing your images with AppleScript or Automator (such as automatically adding to an iPhoto gallery, for example).
Extensive documentation, including a 60+ page tutorial (over 150 pages of PDF documentation), and online help.
Interface driven via "drag & drop", with unlimited undo and live feedback.

What's new in quadrium | flame

Version 1.3:

This release of quadrium | flame is designed to address several minor Leopard issues, but does not provide any Leopard specific features. It does fix several bugs:

Crashing when navigating through view or mutation history
Improper exporting of "with alpha" files (though it doesn't help when different apps treat alpha in TIFF files in different ways, so this may still have some tweaking to go)
It also enhances the "transfer mode" for HDR1 files (so you can better compose images on the colored background).
There is one major new feature - a new gradient editor which includes the ability to manipulate multiple colors stops, drag & drop to rearrange them (as well as drag & drop to insert a second gradient into the middle of one, or to drag and drop a color from the color panel to add a new color stop), more controls to change and adjust the gradient, including blending/tinting of a secondary color.

This version is just the application - you can download the documentation separately (though the documentation hasn't been updated for this version)

Note that this is still a beta, and there may be problems - use at your own risk.

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Corpsecorps

Sep 23 2011

1.3

Version: 1.3

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bleepnik

Sep 7 2007

1.2

Version: 1.2

Well, I didn't get much time to demo it, but I don't want to miss this opportunity. The application is *slow*, extremely slow on my Mac Pro with 2GB RAM (compared to the aforementioned Apophysis, which I ran without a problem on an XP box with 512MB RAM), but it didn't crash in the time that I spent playing with it. Also, to be fair, it appears to be far more robust than Apo. With a new, 64-bit version in the works, I'm eager to see what's in store for this app. Purchased.

Yrm

buggy bone software? hmmm, should i try it? do i have time?

Sdwgraphics

Sep 6 2007

couldn't get it to work. kept quitting on my PB G4

Jimbuckner

Is Q|F iPhoto compatible?

Pablo2k

From the authors site it looks like it could produce some awesome graphics. I´m not a "graphics" guy but maybe I should give this a spin.

Unin5pired

I don't get how strange attractors are "well beyond traditional techniques." A strange attractor is any attractor with non-integer order. While interesting it's not as if they are universally difficult to simulate numerically, and this is far from the only app to utilize them in fluid-dynamics simulations. "You don't need an advanced degree in math to be able to create rich and fascinating images," so why infer that this software is so mathematically sophisticated by invoking terms you'd need a strong math background to understand? Shenanigans!!!!

maolsenspam-1

Sounds like a one-trick pony. I guess if you really need to "draw" flames...

Justorb

I have been lusting after this program since switching to a Mac and not having a Windows computer to run any of my fractal flame programs on anymore. I think this is one I will have to splurge and buy!

Syntiq

Looks like something I´ve seached for.

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