accomplishing the impossible. ;)

[kuangning]

Flame fractals and Out Of Memory errors
Ultra Fractal 3 can calculate flame fractals with the Flame Fractals coloring algorithm in enr.ucl and Apophysis. This opens up new artistic possibilities, but it can also create problems. Flame fractals take a lot of memory to calculate, and they cannot be rendered to disk



Nope. Can't render them. Really.  ;)

Comments

[kaolinfire.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Doesn't make any sense that they can't be rendered to disk. Once they're an image, they're an image. And before that, they just happen to be almost-four-dimensional isntead of almost-three-dimensional (cubics instead of quadratics). I think.

That's a nice pattern you've picked out (very Tribal).

[kuangning]

Thanks. The explanation I've gotten is that the render to disk function works by breaking the image into smaller pieces and rendering them separately. With flame fractals, it can't break it into pieces, so gets stuck -- it winds up rendering the whole fractal multiple times, and bogs down.

The solution I found was to go to the inside tab and open up one of the native UF coloring algorithms. That makes it a UF fractal without affecting the image itself -- and I got the error at render time, but it rendered anyway.

[kaolinfire.livejournal.com]

I _suppose_ that makes sense. ;) :)

Yay for creative solutions.

Render to disk is generally used for higher-res versions?

[kuangning]

Yeah. export to image, which is available for flame fractals, gives you a poorer-quality (albeit fast) image.

[avahgdu.livejournal.com]

looks like a fenix. nico likes

[kuangning]

It does, doesn't it? I'm taken with it -- I can see it as a wallhanging, done in metallic threads.