Configured Random - More Settings
See also:
Reset Settings
- Reset to Default
- Reset Settings to their default values.
Garbage Fractal Filter
The random fractal generator can render a lot of unusable fractals.
The Garbage Filter will throw away garbage fractals based on these settings:
The fractal filter throws out garbage fractals based on these 3 items:
- Background Percentage
- If the image background is the predominant feature, trash it.
- Percent Fused Render Statistic
- If too many of the fractal points are unfused, trash it.
- Percent Retained Render Statistic
- If too many of the fractal points are “outside” the image area, trash it.
The Filter Settings:
- Quality
- Render Quality
- Filter Garbage Fractals
- Enable / Disable the filter.
- Min Fused Cutoff
- Minimum Cutoff for the percent fused render statistic.
- Tracks the percent of points that are fused at the end of the render.
- Min Retained Cutoff
- Minimum Cutoff for the percent retained render statistic.
- Tracks the percent of points that are retained by the histogram at the end of the render
Pre / Post Variation Group
These settings determine whether a Pre and/or Post Variation Group are added to each transform.
If set to zero, no group will be added. If set to 100, a group will be added always.
- Add Pre Group
- Percent chance that a Pre Group will be added to the Transform.
- Add Post Group
- Percent chance that a Post Group will be added to the Transform.
Number of Random Tranforms
These settings determine how many normal transforms are added to each random fractal.
- Minimum
- Minimum
- Maximum
- Maximum
- Linked
- Number of additional Linked Transforms to add.
- Final Xform
- Enable / disable adding a Final Transform.
Linked Transforms are additional transforms that are added where Xaos weight values are configured so that these transforms are “linked” to another transform.
Final transforms have a very strong influence on the fractal shape.
Number of Variations Per Tranform
These settings determine how many variation instances are added to each transform.
- Minimum
- Minimum
- Maximum
- Maximum
Miscellaneous Settings
These are other settings that don’t fall under other categories.
You can override the recommend settings, but for casual users the recommended settings are best
- Fractal Symmetry
- The fractal symmetry value to apply.
- Random Batch Size
- The number of usable random fractals to create per batch. The generator will keep generating random fractals until this threshold is reached.
- Randomize Xaos
- Enable / disable randomizing Xaos weights. Recommendation: Disable this.
- Fractal Type Selector
- Choose either 2D or 3D fractals. Recommendation: 2D
- Randomize 3D Camera
- Enable / disable randomizing 3D camera values for 3D fractals. Recommendation: Disable this.
- Suggest that you use the Variants Editor to try different camera settings instead.
- Flatten 3D Variations
- Enable / disable “flattening” of 2D variation instances when used in 3D fractals. Without this, you may get unwanted “Z-hair” artifacts.
- Recommendation: Enable.
- 3D Camera Settings
- Go to the 3D Camera Settings view.
Aspect Ratio
These settings determine the aspect ratio of the generated fractals.
Possible choices:
- 1x1
- 3x2
- 4x3 iPads
- iPad Pro 11""
- 5x4
- 16x9 iPhones
- 16x10
- iPhone X
- Custom
Custom aspect ratios are entered in the text field.
Wider / Taller Selector
Choose either a wide or tall aspect ratio.
So a 3x4 (wide) can be changed to an effective 4x3 (tall) aspect ratio.