File |
| Open |
Opens the current location from a parameter file (*.kfr) |
| Save |
Saves the current location in the current parameter file (*.kfr) |
| Save as |
Saves the current location in a new parameter file (*.kfr) |
| Save as Jpeg |
Saves the current location in a jpeg file (*.jpg) |
| Store zoom-out images |
Zoom out automatically with the selected Zoom size and store jpeg image file and map file (*.kfb) for each zoom out. The zoom out stops when the depth is lower than 1. The resulting files can be used by the KeyFramMovie program to create a zoom-in animation. |
| Save map |
Saves the current location in a map file (*.kfb). This file can be used by the KeyFramMovie program. |
| Examine Zoom sequence |
Make sure you store the end location as a kfr file in the same directory as you store the zoom sequence frames. This function allows you to examine the frames one by one and add references to remove eventual visible glitch blobs, or choose another pixel as the main reference. |
| Resume Zoom sequence |
Make sure you store the end location as a kfr file in the same directory as you store the zoom sequence frames. This function allows you to resume and continue the zoom out sequnce, if it got interrupted. |
| Exit |
Exit this program |
Action |
| Zoom size |
Set the level of zoom, left mouse click to zoom in, right to zoom out |
| Location... |
Displays the Location dialog where the coordinates for this location is displayed and can be edited. |
| Iterations... |
Displays the Iterations dialog where the maximum iteration number for this location is displayed and can be edited. The smooth color transition method is also set here, and the power on the Mandelbrot function.
The fractal types is also set here - Mandelbrot, Burning Ship, Buffalo or Celtic.
This dialog also displays
- Min: The minimum iteration count for a pixel in this location
- Max: The maximum iteration count for a pixel in this location
- Appr: The number of iterations given by Series approximation
- Calculations: The number of calculations performed and also the number of calculations per second is shown if this dialog is displayed while the image is rendered |
| Set colors... |
Displays the Number of colors dialog where the colors can be edited. |
| Reset |
Set the location to the start point |
| Center cursor |
Center the cursor to image's pattern center |
| Find Minibrot |
Starts an automatic zoom-in in the image's pattern center, until a Minibrot is found or if it fails to find the center. |
| Set window size |
Set the size of the display window. |
| Set image size |
Set the size of the internal image size. If this is larger than the window size, an anti-alias effect is achieved |
| Refresh |
Render the current location |
| Cancel rendering |
Cancel the current rendering |
| Rotate |
Activate rotation, drag to rotate the image |
| Reset rotation |
Clear any rotation |
| Show Inflection |
Activate or deactivate display of Inflection |
| Skew |
Opens the Skew dialog which allows to "un-skew" locations that are skewed |
| Zoom animation |
Turns animation on or off when zooming |
| Special |
| | Add reference (Color) |
Add a reference and re-calculates the pixels with the same iteration count as the reference. This is useful if the Auto solve glitches function fails to find and solve glitches in the image |
| | Set main reference |
Let you click the image and select the main reference for the whole image. This can be useful when glitches appears on top of minibrots when the reference is outside this minibrot. The glitch pattern disappears from the minibrot if the main reference is selected inside the minibrot. |
| | Reuse reference |
Do not re-calculate the reference for further zooming. This can be useful when during automatic zoom-out and to test different reference points, but must not be used together with the Auto solve glitches function active |
| | Find center of glitch (Color) |
Centers the mouse pointer over the glitch blob found, if any |
| | Auto solve glitches |
Turns the Auto solve glitches function on or off |
| | Solve glitch with near pixel method |
Instead of re-render all pixels with the same iteration count value(color) only the connected pixels are re-rendered. On some locations other areas in the same view have the exact same iteration count values. These pixels may be correctly rendered and may be incorrect if re-rendered with another reference |
| | Find highest iteration |
Centers the mouse pointer over the pixel with the highest iteration |
| | Show iterations |
Displays the image black-and-white with the pixels with the highest iteration as white and the pixels with the lowest iteration as black |
| | No approximation |
Turns the Series approximation function on or off. |
| | Non exact find Minibrot |
Makes the Find Minibrot function fail every 20 zoom-in, in order to gain depth automatically without ending up in a Minibrot |
| | Special |
Mirror - mirrors the image around the x-axis. Can be used on the deeper half of a zoom sequence to a minibrot - but not too close to the minibrot and too close to the half...
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| | Show smooth transition colors |
Displays the image black-and-white representing the smoothing coefficient |
| | Use long double always |
Use always the 80-bit long double hardware data type. This can solve some type of glitches |
| | Use floatexp always |
Use always the double mantissa/integer exponent data type. This probably only make the render slower |
| | Use auto iterations |
Turns automatic iteration control on or off. This is on per default. |
| | Set Ratio |
Enables chaning the ratio between height and width of the background image in order to enable stretching locations. Combinated with rotation, an almost infinite skewing ability is enabled, useful when exploring the hidden treasures of the new Fractals! |
| | Reset Ratio |
Reset ratio to default |
| | Skew animation |
Activates or deactivas skew animation. If activated, a popup allows you to specify end skew parameters and number of frames. The fractal will be rendered frame by frame,
and can be combined with frame by frame rendering in KeyFrameMovieMaker or MMY3D |
| | Show glitches |
When activated, glitches are displayed with a solid color |
| | Newton-Raphson zooming |
When activated, a dialog will be displayed, which allows you to select if the zoom should jump directly to the minibrot, or to 3/4 zooms to the minibrot, where the current pattern is doubled.
Click on the fractal to specify the start point of the search of the minibrot
The current zoom size is used to set the boundaries of search around the selected point
Notice that it can take an hour or more to calculate the position of minibrots beyond e1000. However, that should be still much faster than zooming to the minibrot manually by selecting the center of the pattern in the view, or with the automatic search of minibrot that is also using the pattern center |