Triangle Editor

2D & 3D Transform Editor

Applies to:FA 5
The transform editor allows you to control the appearance of your fractal by defining the fractal’s component transforms.

2D fractal transforms use the triangle viewport for modifying the 2D transform.

3D fractal transforms can be edited modifying either 3 separate triangles or by modifying a single tetrahedron.

See: What makes a Flame Fractal?

See: Variation Groups and Variation Instancing

See: 2D Triangle Viewport

See: 3D Tetrahedron Viewport

See: Layerz & Subflames

Tutorial: Triangle Editor Tutorial

2D Fractal - Triangle Viewport

Transform editor window -- Triangle editing — Transform editor window – Triangle editing

3D Fractal - Triangle Viewport – XY, YZ, & ZX faces

3D Fractal - Tetrahedron Viewport

Transform editor window-- Tetrahedron editing — Transform editor window– Tetrahedron editing

Triangle Editor panels

A. 2D Triangle viewer/editor panel or 3D Tetrahedron viewer/editor panel
B. Transform List, Final Transform, Flame Parameters, Dimensions, Flam3, & Designer panels
C. Triangle viewport options panel
D. Variations, Parameters, Matrices, and Triangles panel
E. Triangle Adjuster panel
F. Chaos Weights dialog
G. Dockable preview

Triangle Editor Thumbnail Image Window

Resizing
The thumbnail image window can be resized with the mouse at the bottom-right corner.

Quicklook
Click on the thumbnail image to make it the key window. Press spacebar to open the quicklook view window. Press spacebar again to close it.

Drag & Drop
Dragging a flame file on top of the thumbnail will cause the file to be opened in another Preview window.
Click hold the mouse on the window’s image until a small thumbnail appears. Drag this onto a finder window or Desktop to copy the flame fractal document to that location.

Tips and TroubleShooting

My fractal image disappeared and all I see is the background color!
This is called a diverging fractal, where the point iteration process causes the points to leave the area seen through the fractal image. One common culprit is a transform matrix expansion with a large scale factor value.