Index

Welcome Window

General Rendering and Fractal Concepts


Importance of the Quality Setting

Tutorials


Creating Random Fractals Tutorial

Creating Fractal Variants Tutorial

Creating Custom Desktop Backgrounds Tutorial

Triangle Editor Tutorial

Color Gradient Editor Tutorial

Chaos & Linked Transforms Tutorial

Introduction to Animating Fractals

Using the Cross Breeder

Using the Stash to Improve Your Fractals

Keyframe Video Animation

Preview Window


Fractal Preview Window

Browsing All Frames in a File

Keyframe Fractal Collection Window

Fractal Rotation, Scaling, Moving, & Cropping

Browsing your Fractal Collection

Editors


Welcome Window

Triangle Editor

Color Gradient Editor

Fractal Variant Creator

The Stash

Quick-Spin Slider and Interpolater

Fractal Cross-Breeder

Keyframes, Folios, and Image Batch Rendering


PDF Folios, Finder Quicklook Previews & Animation Tutorial

PDF Folio & Image Batch Rendering

Creating PNG, JPEG, & TIFF File Output


Tutorial: Render Images to File for Printing & Web

Tutorial: Advanced Rendering

Article: Exhibition Image Rendering

Render to File panel

Render Multiple Images to a Folder Panel

Render State panel

Render Histogram panel

Printing the fractal

Setting the Render-to Colorspace

Creating Video File Output


Rendering an animation directly to video

Rendering a batch of PNG files

Creating a Quicktime movie from a PNG file batch


Export an Apophysis compatible .flame file

Drag and Drop of fractals, images, color gradients, and files


Drag & Drop Behavior

Rendering Engines


OpenCL CPU and GPU Accelerated Renderers

Fractal Architect Preferences


Preferences

Troubleshooting


Missing flam3-palettes.xml


Hardware & Software Requirements