Fragmentarium 0.9 Released

Fractals, Fragmentarium

I’ve released a new build of Fragmentarium, version 0.9 (“Sun Ra”).

Download at Github.
(As of now only Windows builds are available)

New features

  • New high resolution output dialog (with auto-naming and auto-backup of scripts and parameters)
  • Locking of parameters (makes rendering considerably faster in some cases by turning uniforms into constants)

Minor improvements

  • Mouse wheel now changes camera position, not FOV
  • Default raytracer improvements:
    • Removed ‘AntiAliasBlur’,’MaxRayStepDiv’, and ‘NormalDetail’ settings
    • Added reflection
    • Shadows (hard, and pseudo-soft shadows)
    • Added dithering (for banding removal) and very simple RNG functionality.
    • Added new ambient occlusion method (similar to Rrola/Subblue – sample along normal for proximity).
  • Added a simpler, but faster version of my raytracer. Just include “Fast-Raytracer.frag” instead of “DE-Raytracer.frag”
  • Added a port of Subblues Fractal Labs (fractal.io) raytracer (GPL). Just include “Subblue-Raytracer.frag” instead of “DE-Raytracer.frag”
  • Added vertical scroll bars to user parameter groups.
  • Added ‘#define providesInit’, ‘#define providesColor’ (to provide custom coloring)
  • Added vec4 GUI slider type
  • Now disables uniforms which are not used in shader.
  • Compiler warnings are now shown in output, also if there is no errors.
  • Bugfix: resize of window now updates aspect ratio.
  • Bugfix: handling of specular exponent = 0
  • BugFix: fixed fps timer for >500ms renders
  • BugFix: Tile Render now works in manual mode.
  • BugFix: Using mouse and key movement at the same time, would result in distance between eye and target getting smaller and smaller.

New fragments

  • A whole collection of new fragments from Knighty!
  • Some of my own new fragments: GraphPlotter, KaliSet, BurningShip, Spudsville, Mandelbrot2D, Terrain.
  • 2DJulia.frag and Complex.frag to make 2D fractals easier.
  • New raytracers: Subblue-Raytracer.frag, Fast-Raytracer.frag
  • QuilezLib with Iñigo Quilez’s collection of sphere tracing primitives
  • Ashima-Noise.frag, a library of Noise functions.

Comments

Some of the new utility libraries make fractals very easy to explore. For instance, 2D escape time fractals are very easy to explore now.

Here is an example:

#include "2DJulia.frag"
#include "Complex.frag"

// 'Ducks' fractal by Samuel Monnier
vec2 formula(vec2 z, vec2 c) {
    return cLog(vec2(z.x,abs(z.y)))+c;
}

which produces this:

Other examples:


Terrain example – example of the new noise library


Mandelbrot heightmap example – based on Knighty’s example

For more example of images generated with the new version, take a look at the Flickr Fragmentarium stream.

Notice for ATI users

Several fragments fail on ATI cards. This seems to be due to faulty GLSL driver optimizations. A workaround is to lock the ‘iterations’ variable (click the padlock next to it). Adding a bailout check inside the main DE loop (e.g. ‘if (length(z)>1000.0) break;’) also seems to do the job.

8 thoughts on “Fragmentarium 0.9 Released”

  1. Ca you clarify were to but that ATI bug fix as on my Mac it looks like it’s causing Fragmentarium to crash on startup.

  2. Hi David, I tested on a Window 7 machine with an ATI card, but here the startup fragment (the Mandelbulb) worked. The ones that didn’t work, were several of the Kaleidoscopic IFS’s.

    Could I get you to try renaming the Mandelbulb.frag to something else (so that it is not loaded on startup), and then test if you can run any of the other fragments?

  3. Hi

    If I rename Mandlebulb.frag then run Fragmentarium I get the following results.

    If I run QuaternionJulia.frag – I get a crash
    If I run Mandlebulb.frag – I get a crash
    If I run Mandlebox.frag then the mandlebox renders.

    The 2D fragments render, as do Knighty’s, well the ones that compile (ATI compiler).

    The IFS fragments also crash.

    Interestingly sometimes, very, very occasionally, Mandelbulb and QuaternionJulia.frag do work, but never when they are the first fragment to run, only if I run them second or later. Its not consistent, for example the first time it happened I ran MandelBox first then the other two worked, the next time I tried I ran Mandelbox first, Mandelbulb and QJ failed.

    Dave

  5. Him

    I’ve tried on or two and they work with the Fast-Raytracer.frag and Subblue-Raytracer.frag too.

  6. Interesting. Do you have any idea of whether the standard ray-tracer times out (because rendering takes too long?) or if it crashes because of a GLSL compiler error? Do you get any error messages? What happens, if you enable preview – does it still crash?

  7. Hi,

    I get crashes with preview, even 5x, given how quick it crashes with preview this high I’d guess that is isn’t a timeout.
    I don’t think OSX has a timeout, I’ve pretty sure I’ve had stuff running in Subblues fractal lab for well over a minute.

    I’m going to try compiling it with anolder version of Qt just incase it’s a Qt 4.8.0 problem.
    Crash Report below.

    Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
    Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000004
    Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

    Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
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