Apophysis (software)

Apophysis (software)

Infobox Software
name = Apophysis

caption =


developer =
latest_release_version = 2.08 beta
latest_release_date = August 8th, 2008
operating_system = Microsoft Windows
programming_language = Delphi
genre = Fractal / Graphics
license = GNU General Public License
website = [http://www.apophysis.org/ www.apophysis.org]

Apophysis is a fractal flame editor and renderer for Microsoft Windows. It was created by Mark Townsend by translating Scott Draves' original C code into Delphi and adding a GUI. It has since been improved and updated by Peter Sdobnov, Piotr Borys, and Ronald Hordijk ( [http://sourceforge.net/projects/apophysis/ the SourceForge project developers] ). It is open source, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Apophysis has many features for creating and editing fractal flames, including an editor which allows one to directly edit the transforms that comprise the fractal flame, a mutations window, which applies random edits to the triangles, an adjust window, which allows the adjustment of coloring and location of the image, and even a scripting language with direct access to most of the components of the fractal, which allows for effects such as the animations seen in Electric Sheep, which are also fractal flames. Users can export fractal flames to other fractal flame rendering programs, such as flam3.

Recently, Apophysis has begun gaining favor among the community of deviantART. Apophysis, and competing fractal product UltraFractal, are the most popular fractal software used by fractal artists on deviantART. Fact|date=July 2008

Apophysis has also recently been modified to create 3D fractals, opening up whole new dimensions to experiment with.

Creating Fractals with Apophysis

Creation of a fractal is a very random process. Most of the time the artist achieves something other than what he or she planned. Thus the whole process of making a fractal in Apophysis is called "Fractal Exploring".

A fractal can be generated in many ways. The most easy but time consuming way is to run the Random Batch script (File > Random Batch) and explore the randomly generated fractals. There are not any strict rules, so, for tuning the fractal change the values in the Variations and Variables tab of the Transform Editor. There are no minimum or maximum values in Apophysis. Any numerical value is valid. If accidentally any invalid value is put in any field then the nearest possible value is put automatically. But, most importantly, the shape, size and position of the triangles should be changed because those are the factors which are responsible the most for the shape of the fractal. So, the possibilities are endless.More experienced Apophysis users will sometimes start from a blank flame (one or two triangles, or transforms, on default settings) and edit the flame in the transform editor until they receive a satisfactory image.

Apophysis Scripts

Apophysis uses the [http://www.tmssoftware.com/scriptstudio.htm Scripter Studio] scripting library to allow users to write scripts which run and either create a new flame, edit the existing flames, or do bigger tasks. One such instance is rendering an entire batch of fractals.

Sample images

ee also

* Fractint
* Fractal art
* Ultra fractal

External links

* [http://www.apophysis.org/ Apophysis.org]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/apophysis SourceForge project page]
* [http://apophysis.wikispaces.com/ Apophysis Wiki]
* [http://apophysis.deviantart.com/ Apophysis at DeviantArt]
* [http://membres.lycos.fr/jfbouzereau/apophysis.html apophysis-j : A version of Apophysis in java running on mac, linux and windows]


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