Maybe one day Apophysis will add support for Chaotica's. Image import in Ultra Fractal works via image parameters in formulas, typically coloring algorithms. Sorry for the negative answer but I hope I've given a good overview of why it's not possible, at least not right now. I'm not sure how he did it in UF but I doubt very much that it was fast/efficient, which is probably why it was made into its own program in the end. Somehow Mark Townsend managed it, and he later went on to write Apophysis. Some historical info: UltraFractal generally uses a different rendering paradigm to flam3 (escape time instead of IFS), which is what led the flam3 co-author Erik Reckase to bet Mark Townsend that he couldn't make a flam3 rendering formula for UF. However, it's not possible to render IFS efficiently using this method, except in some special cases.īesides these issues, Chaotica also supports some stuff Apophysis doesn't (such as for example being able to use any transform as normal, pre or post in a flam3 transform), and so would not be possible to save in the Apophysis file format. UltraFractal is based on a more straightforward rendering algorithm based on escape time analysis, which allows you to "ask for any pixel's colour" independently of any other, which makes it really easy to render with low memory usage. in this way an image appears uniformly over time (so the whole image needs to be stored in memory and worked with as a whole). On the Location tab of the Layer Properties tool window, click the Reset Location button to reset the location to the default for the currently loaded Pixel formula.The short answer is no, because of algorithmic and file format differences, Chaotica params can't be used with Apophysis or UltraFractal.Ĭhaotica/Apophysis/flam3 use a method called IFS (iterated function system) to render images, in which points jump around over the image randomly, accumulating some colour as they go. This occurs because the location of the layer is still set to the default Mandelbrot location. In the fractal window, the image is now shown, but it is moved slightly to the right. The image parameter now shows a preview of the selected image: Hold down the Open button to open a menu with the option to clear the image. Currently, no image is selected, so the image parameter shows up as a rectangular box with the text (Empty).Ĭlick the Open button to select an image on your computer, for example the Rice.jpg image that comes with Ultra Fractal.
It fills the entire layer with the selected image. The Image coloring algorithm contains a single image parameter. Go to the Outside tab in the Layer Properties tool window, and click the Browse button here to select the Image coloring algorithm in Standard.ucl. Inductive logic programming (ILP) is a subfield of symbolic AI aimed to automatically learn declarative.
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However, it also might make it a little less obvious how to use them.Īs a starting point, let's load an image such that it fills the entire layer.įirst, use the browser to open the Default parameter set in Examples.upr.Ĭlick the Browse button in the Formula tab of the Layer Properties tool window to select the Pixel formula in Standard.ufm. Machine learning methods are growing in relevance for biometrics and personal information processing in domains such as forensics, e-health, recruitment, and e-learning. This lets you do much more with imported images than just adding them as a separate layer. Image import in Ultra Fractal works via image parameters in formulas, typically coloring algorithms.