[Update] Mandelbulb 3D v.1.6.8
CoMa
Mandelbulb 3D
http://www.fractalforums.com/mandelbulb-3d/
Mandelbulb 3D is a program designed for the Windows platform,
to generate real 3D views of different fractals.
What is new in version 1.6.8:
- Increased formula options for supporting 4d analytic formulas.
- New formulas added, including the Amazing Box in 4d, a 4d rotation and
a MengerIFS that harmonizes with other formulas in hybrids.
- An option to calculate a fast 8x8 blocky image ('Calc-' button).
- Some changes in the lighting: gamma range from 0.5 to 2, option for
the background light curve, background image can be used also
nonspherical.
- More 2nd coloring options beside 'orbit trap', must be selected
before the main calculation.
- Quick load of full light parameters plus option to not change
the lights.
- Option for showing informations about selected formulas, if available.
- Sharpen parameter for downscaled output images.
What is new in version 1.6.7:
- Raymarching modified to speedup far distance stepping.
The optimal Raystep multiplier for each formula can change
in comparison to previous program versions. Please try out
until the point where no overstepping occurs is found.
- The DEAO ambient shadow function was modified and has
4 raycount options.
- New calculation option "First step random" to make overstepping
and some banding artifacts more random and less obvious.
- Navigator option "HiQual" to reduce overstepping artifacts.
- Solved a bug in the Navigator walking options, reduces wild
stepping inside.
- Tried to decrease the color shifting while zooming in the object,
though changing the maximum iteration count will still shift the colors.
Because of this change, the colors are calculated different when loading
older version parameters!
- The minimum and maximum iteration counts moved to the formula tab,
if someone is missing them.
- Solved some issues with positional lights in combination with
depth color, and with backward light visibility.
- "Recalculate a selection" option in the post processings, so you may
reduce some overstepping artifacts later on, or to test some parameters
on certain image parts to get good settings.
- New extern formula "TrafasselQuat" for some interesting quaternion
variations.
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Regards
CoMa