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Apophysis 3D hack versions
This wonderful FREE flame fractal editor is fundamentally easy to use, yet very complex and in many ways it can be a bit quirky. Here you will find out how to explore the 3D Flame Fractal universe in full color and in detailed stereoscopic modes. The 3D versions operate just like the 2D versions with differences in which plugins are included, a few changes in some functions and best of all, additional controls for the render camera which enables the designer to rotate the flame and move the camera for views not possible in 2D.
Consider it’s environment: Virtually infinite mathematical abstractions
Consider it’s writing history: multiple authors at different times, building on what came before, integrating their own visions, changing and updating with a loosely organized method of establishing “official” releases.
It is easy to understand why it is quirky! Knowing about these complexities, it becomes interesting and amazing to find that the program is relatively easy to navigate and figure out. Many basic exploration functions are automatically driven by random processes. Yet, an artist can work from scratch and explore in so many unique directions with deliberate design goals!
There are a number of unresolved minor bugs in the program and a myriad of little details that aren’t well documented which can trip you up. To accomplish easy, reliable, well aligned and framed stereoscopic output requires a set of principles and working methods which address both the requirements for stereoscopic image pairs and which deal with some of the less obvious quirks in the program.
This blog is a new medium for this author, but it is hoped that it will provide a kind of interactive learning environment to help build your skill with Apo 3D towards the goal of having more fun and getting better images from the program, stereoscopic 3D or not.
In particular, my specialty is with stereoscopic imaging. Since the mid 1990’s I have worked with a wide variety of graphics programs in the pursuit of generating, editing, learning about and exploring stereoscopic pictures, photographs, drawings, fractals, and textures. Apophysis 3D hack is the culmination of what I most longed for all along the way, but didn’t find or have available.
Apophysis started as a 2D fractal program for a number of years before Zueuk worked out the 3D hack. I understand that it was difficult programming, but the results are so satisfying!
Some readers of this blog may remember finding my website which hosted hundreds of free background textures, all of which were designed to be stereoscopic in and of themselves, as well as remaining stereo when tiled to fill a space. They were called 3D Webscapes. Those patterns are now back on another part of this website, and they remain free for anyone to use.
