I’ve released a new build of Fragmentarium with some much needed updates, including better camera control, high resolution renders, and animation.

New features in version 0.8:

• The 3D camera has been rewritten: it is now a “first-person”, pinhole camera (like Boxplorer and Fractal Lab), and is controllable using mouse and keyboard. Camera view can now be saved together with other settings.
• Arbitrary resolution renderings (using tile based rendering – the GPU won’t time out).
• Preview modes (renders to FBO with lower resolution and rescales).
• ‘Tile preview’ for previewing part of high-resolution renders.
• Animation controller (experimental: no keyframes yet, you must animate using the system supplied ‘time’ variable. Animation is output as a sequence of still images).
• Presets (group parameters settings and load them into a dropbox)
• New fractals: QuaternionMandelbrot4D, Ducks, NewMenger.
• Improved raytracer: dithering, fog, new coloring schemes.

Download it here: http://syntopia.github.com/Fragmentarium/get.html

High-resolution render of a 4D Quaternion Mandelbrot (click for large)

Samuel Monnier’s ‘Ducks’ Fractal has been added.

Mandelbrot/Julia type system now with embedded Mandelbrot map.

Fragmentarium test animation – click here for higher resolution.