quadrium | flame 1.0 review
Downloadquadrium |flame is an application allows you to create and animate "flame fractals".
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quadrium |flame is an application allows you to create and animate "flame fractals".
It combines a wide variety of mathematic transformations (going well beyond traditional techniques to include such things as strange attractors) with an interface designed to let you easily explore the vast realm of possible images, allowing you to literally "grow" you image.
You don't need an advanced degree in math to be able to create rich and fascinating images, suitable for websites, presentation backgrounds, cards, CD covers, brochures, or fine art prints. You can even create animations, bringing your creations to life.
Here are some key features of "quadrium flame":
Interactvely build your image
Compose your images by combining 14 different transformations and attractors
Live feedback as you directly manipulate the flames
Warp your image with 37 different topologies, applied either globally or on a per flame basis
Color both based on per flame color as well as gradient (and any combination of the two)
Full featured gradient editor
Mutate your image to explore countless variations
"Breed" your images together to combine their features creating a new images.
Fine tune your images by explicitly adjusting their various settings, or use the "tweener" to adjust large numbers of settings all at once
Animate your creations, generating QuickTime movies
Render high resolution versions of your creations (up to 600 dpi with 4:1 anti-aliasing)
Share your images locally via Bonjour, or globally via your .Mac account
Create image workflows by post-processing your images with AppleScript or Automator (such as automatically adding to an iPhoto gallery, for example).
Extensive documentation, including a 45 page tutorial (over 110 pages of PDF documentation), and online help.
Interface driven via "drag & drop", with unlimited undo and live feedback.
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