Ultra Fractal

Infobox Software
name = Ultra Fractal



caption = Ultra Fractal 4 screenshot under Windows XP
author = Frederik Slijkerman
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released = May 2006
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operating system = Windows
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language = English, German, Spanish
genre = Fractal Renderer
license = Proprietary
website = [http://www.ultrafractal.com/ www.ultrafractal.com]

Ultra Fractal is a fractal generation and rendering software application. The program works using a similar paradigm to Photoshop, allowing multiple layers to be combined using layer blending modes, transformations and custom fractal formulas.

Fractal formulas, coloring algorithms and transformations may be written by users and a large number of such formula files are available in a public formula database. Fractals may be copied from the interface and pasted as plain text into an email, there is a busy mailing list on which many users post their parameter sets.

Calculation using arbitrary precision arithmetic is supported, allowing users to zoom to a magnification of $10^\{4000\}$.

The GUI is customizable with a dockable MDI. The software calculates statistics about the fractal that is being previewed. Other features include fullscreen mode, color cycling, a render queue, distributed rendering calculations and a detailed help file. Version 4 added support for animations and improved flame fractal rendering.

UltraFractal is commercial software, but an evaluation version is freely available. The unregistered version creates watermarked renders.

The Fractint formulae were converted to an UltraFractal formula file.

ee also

* Fractint
* Fractal art
* Apophysis

External links

* [http://www.ultrafractal.com Ultra Fractal]
* [http://formulas.ultrafractal.com/ UF Formula Database]