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Versiohistoria: Fractal Designer

Muutokset, parannukset ja korjaukset sovelluksen Fractal Designer eri versioissa.

Takaisin sovelluksen sivulleNykyinen versio 1.40.1

Julkaisutiedot ovat saatavilla kielellä englanti.

Versio 1.40.1

Parannukset

  • Timeline: in windows from about 1180 pixels wide the controls fit on one row, which leaves the picture more room.

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Timeline: selecting a keyframe reset the document name to "Untitled" and moved the selection to the bottom layer.

Versio 1.40.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • Templates: all starter projects reworked and six new ones added, from 3D solids and particle flames to plants and typography; most of them move when played.
  • "New" menu: templates are picked from cards with previews, also by keyboard.
  • The document has a name, shown and editable above the picture and used as the file name for saving and exports.

Parannukset

  • New look for the whole editor, with drawn icons throughout.
  • Layer list: layers are numbered as figures in paint order ("Fig. 1" is the bottom layer), and the list scrolls to keep the selected layer in view.
  • Narrow windows: the index folds into a slim column, and below about 820 pixels layers and properties open as a drawer.
  • Canvas: the transform handles appear only while the pointer is over the picture, while dragging and briefly after selecting a layer.
  • Choosing a template asks for confirmation only when there are unsaved changes.

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Page format: a 1280 × 720 page was shown as "Custom" and "1280:720" instead of "16:9".
  • Playback: in some window sizes, the picture jumped when the time readout gained a digit.

Versio 1.39.0

Parannukset

  • Layers: a layer added from the toolbox is inserted directly above the selected layer, inside its group, instead of at the top of the stack.
  • Transform: every field has its own reset button, and "Reset transform" resets offset, scale, rotation, tilt and depth in one undoable step.
  • "Open" asks before replacing unsaved changes, can be reached with the keyboard and also works with Ctrl+O.
  • Autosave: a notice appears when a project grows too large for the browser's storage, and closing the tab then warns before unsaved work is lost.
  • Export dialogs work with the keyboard: Escape closes them and Tab stays inside.
  • Accessibility: keyboard focus is visible in both themes, and buttons, sliders, fields and gradient stops have proper names for screen readers.
  • Small interface improvements, including a confirmation before a gradient is removed from the library and shorter hints and tooltips.

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Canvas: a double-click reset the view by accident; resetting now takes Ctrl+double-click or the "Reset the view" button.
  • Export dialogs: pressing Del deleted the selected layer in the editor behind them.
  • A lost connection to the graphics card was reported as missing WebGPU; the message now says what happened and offers "Reload".

Versio 1.38.1

Parannukset

  • Mandelbrot, Julia, Burning Ship, Tricorn, Celtic and Spider render two to seven times faster at high iteration counts, with an identical picture.
  • Attractors and flames respond faster to panning, zooming and changes to point size, brightness or extent.
  • Editing is smoother: letting go of a handle is instant, and dragging a slider above blurred or glowing layers runs several times faster.
  • Halftone effects render up to three times faster, and video exports up to twice as fast.
  • Groups: once a group with an effect or a 3D tilt is moved, rotated or scaled, a dotted outline shows where its content is cut off.

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Canvas: for layers inside a moved, rotated or scaled group, the handles appeared in the wrong place and dragging sent the layer the wrong way.
  • Groups: layers moved or shrunk inside a group were cut off at an invisible page-sized edge, and enlarged groups looked blurred.
  • A tool dropped onto the canvas while a transformed group was selected did not land under the pointer.

Versio 1.38.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • Effects: the new mask "Frame (where it acts)" confines an effect to a rectangle or ellipse that can be pulled out by its corners, moved, rotated and given a soft edge.

Parannukset

  • Waves: a "Reference line" with "Amplitude damping" and "Frequency damping" lets the waves shrink or grow toward the bottom of the picture.

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Video export: in Firefox, the export failed at the very end, after all frames had been rendered.
  • Video export: MP4 files exported from Firefox played smeared and ghosted in VLC and other players.
  • Video export: after a WebM export, the dialog showed MP4 as the format but still produced WebM.
  • Video export: since 1.37.1, the dialog took about a second longer to open.
  • Timeline: the play button stayed disabled for the first seconds after the app started.

Versio 1.37.1

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Video export: MP4 exports failed at the very end in some browsers (fully fixed in 1.38.0).

Versio 1.37.0

Parannukset

  • Toolbox: the fractals are divided into "Escape-time fractals", "Chaotic maps", "Curves & constructions" and "3D fractals".
  • Toolbox: the effects are divided into "Color & tone", "Blur & light", "Distort" and "Halftone & retro".

Versio 1.36.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • New fractal: Feather, with long feathery plumes and an adjustable exponent.
  • New fractals: SFX, Hénon, Duffing, Ikeda and Chirikov.

Versio 1.35.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • Space-filling curve: the former Hilbert curve layer draws Hilbert, Moore, Peano, Serpentine or Spiral; existing projects keep Hilbert.
  • Space-filling curve 3D: the same five curves inside a cube.

Versio 1.34.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • New layer: Hilbert curve, with the palette running along the line and adjustable depth and line width.
  • New layer: 3D Hilbert curve, drawn as a lit tube through a cube that can be rotated and tilted.

Versio 1.33.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • Julia, Burning Ship, Tricorn, Celtic, Spider and Phoenix keep their detail at deep zoom, with the same "Arithmetic precision" setting as the Mandelbrot.

Versio 1.32.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • Mandelbrot: keeps its detail up to about a million million times magnification; the new "Arithmetic precision" setting switches this on automatically.
  • Mandelbrot: "Iterations" can grow with the zoom ("Automatic (with depth)", the default for new layers) and be scaled with "Iterations ×"; a "Fixed count" now goes up to 20,000.
  • Formulas: the new variables zoom and depth follow the camera's magnification, also during playback.
  • Coloring method "Smooth + angle (2D)": new settings scale, offset and rotate the image and choose what happens at its edges.
  • New fractal: Julia (deep zoom), which keeps its detail down to the deepest zoom.

Parannukset

  • Inspector: a reset button beside every changed parameter restores its default, as does a double-click on the slider.
  • Sliders for wide ranges such as color scales, frequencies and radii give finer control at small values.
  • Fractals placed small or off-center can be zoomed into as deeply as full-page ones, and layers can be placed at any zoom depth.
  • Small improvements: American spelling in the English interface, "Color scale" and the image scales up to 100, and "Scale" in the transform block as a number field.

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Timeline: the playhead sometimes refused to move when dragged.
  • Angle and rotation sliders could not be set exactly to zero.
  • Mandelbrot (deep zoom): zoomed far out, colored rings covered the empty space around the set. Existing projects may show a slight shift in the gradient.

Versio 1.30.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • Video export: optional "Motion blur", also for animated PNG, with an adjustable "Length of the blur".
  • Transform: the new "Place in the view" button centers a layer in the current view at its starting size.

Parannukset

  • Transform: the scale goes down to a ten-millionth instead of a tenth.
  • Mandelbrot (deep zoom): up to 100,000 iterations instead of 4,000, entered in a number field.
  • Export dialogs: after an export, the dialog shows the file written and how long it took, or that the export failed or was canceled.

Virheenkorjaukset

  • When the connection to the graphics card was lost, the picture froze without a message; the app now asks for a reload and restores the project.
  • Mandelbrot (deep zoom): offset, scale and rotation had no effect; the 3D rows are now dimmed with "No effect with deep zoom".
  • Formulas: a formula set on only one of two keyframes had no effect between them; it now fades in or out over that stretch.
  • Video export: a second export from the same dialog overwrote the previous file without asking.
  • Video export: the time estimate was missing when the dialog was opened shortly after the app started.

Versio 1.29.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • The interface is available in English as well as German; the DE/EN switch beside the color scheme changes it instantly without losing any work. On a first visit, the browser's language is used.

Parannukset

  • Numbers follow the interface language: 1,5 in German, 1.5 in English.
  • Corrected quotation marks in the German interface.

Versio 1.28.2

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Screen readers pronounced the German interface as English.

Versio 1.28.1

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Toolbox: the Text tool preview was barely visible in the light color scheme.

Versio 1.28.0

Parannukset

  • Toolbox: the Image and Video tools show a preview instead of an empty square.

Versio 1.27.1

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Toolbar: the image export button was labeled "PNG" instead of "Image".

Versio 1.27.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • Image export: JPEG and WebP as well as PNG; only formats the browser can actually write are offered.
  • Image export: "Copy to clipboard" copies the picture as PNG at the chosen resolution.
  • Image export: for JPEG, the dialog warns about transparent areas and shows the color they are filled with.
  • Image export: the destination can be chosen in the browser's save dialog.

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Image export: during playback or with an active formula, the exported image did not match the frame on screen.

Versio 1.26.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • The application version is shown beside the title.

Versio 1.25.0

Parannukset

  • Browser storage: media a project no longer uses are released at start-up.
  • Loading a picture is faster in projects with large embedded clips or music.

Virheenkorjaukset

  • With the editor open in two windows, saving in one deleted the pictures, clips and music of the other.
  • A removed soundtrack came back after a reload.

Versio 1.24.2

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Gradients: editing the stops of a picture gradient used by two layers replaced the picture with a black-to-white ramp.

Versio 1.24.1

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Music: a loaded track was missing after a reload. In older projects, loading the track again repairs this.
  • Very large sessions lost their music, duration and frame rate after a reload.

Versio 1.24.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • Picture gradients: the transparency of the color stops now applies to the picture, so shapes can fade out at their edge as with Fire or Ice. Newly loaded pictures start with a soft edge.

Yhteensopimattomat muutokset

  • Picture gradients loaded before this version may now look partly transparent; setting their color stops to full opacity restores the earlier look.

Versio 1.23.2

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Fractals: zoomed far out, the outside turned pale yellow instead of staying transparent.

Versio 1.23.1

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Mandelbrot and Julia: the area outside the set was filled with color instead of staying transparent.

Versio 1.23.0

Parannukset

  • Mandelbrot and Julia: the lighting is smooth to the pixel, without stair-stepped contour lines.

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Escape-time fractals: a faint step appeared at every color band edge, clearly visible with lighting. Colors in existing projects are now spaced more widely.

Versio 1.22.1

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Lighting: the relief changed with the "Display" setting, so exports could look different from the preview.
  • Lighting: hard, pixelated lines appeared along the edge of a set.

Versio 1.22.0

Parannukset

  • Gradients: picture gradients appear in the gradient list like Fire or Ice, marked with a picture icon; "Load an image …" at the end of the list adds one.

Versio 1.21.3

Parannukset

  • Fractals render faster without lighting and where much of the picture lies inside the set.

Versio 1.21.2

Virheenkorjaukset

  • At a "Display" resolution below 1×, dragging or zooming rendered at full resolution and was slow.

Versio 1.21.1

Parannukset

  • Gradients: the button for loading a picture sits next to the gradient selector, shows the file name and has a button to return to the color stops.
  • The color stop editor is labeled "Edit color stops".

Versio 1.21.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • Display: new ½× and ¼× preview resolutions keep heavy scenes responsive; exports are unaffected.
  • Lighting is available for Multibrot, Phoenix, Magnet, Sine Julia, Kali and Lyapunov as well.

Parannukset

  • "Smooth + angle (2D)": the inspector explains that this coloring method needs a picture gradient and where to load one.

Versio 1.20.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • New layer: "Flame IFS", the fractal flame, with fifteen variations, rotational symmetry and a "Seed" for new random forms.
  • New effect: "Log density" brings out faint detail in flames and particle attractors.

Versio 1.19.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • Orbit trap: the orbit can be measured against a point, line, cross, ring or square of adjustable size ("Trap shape", "Trap size").
  • Escape-time fractals: a new "Lighting" setting shades the color bands as lit, rounded surfaces; it is off by default.

Versio 1.18.4

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Video export refused projects without keyframes; such projects now export with a note.
  • A project containing only a video clip could not be played, presented or exported.

Versio 1.18.3

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Video layers were silent when added; the volume now starts at full.
  • Pictures, clips and music were missing after a reload. In private windows or with a full disk, they still last only as long as the tab.

Versio 1.18.2

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Video layers: in exports, the sound did not follow an animated start time, speed, duration or volume.

Versio 1.18.1

Parannukset

  • Particle layers draw slightly faster.

Versio 1.18.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • Gradients: a picture can be loaded as a gradient; it is saved with the project, and removing it brings back the color stops.
  • Escape-time fractals: the new coloring method "Smooth + angle (2D)" uses the whole picture of a picture gradient.

Versio 1.17.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • New effect: "Lighting" shades the picture as a relief, with adjustable light direction and elevation and the height taken from brightness or opacity.

Versio 1.16.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • New "Present" button: plays the piece full-screen without any editing controls; Escape returns to the editor.

Versio 1.15.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • Video export: the sound of video layers is included, mixed with the music.

Virheenkorjaukset

  • A video layer with "At end" set to "Fade out" kept playing its sound after disappearing.

Versio 1.14.0

Parannukset

  • Video export is faster, especially at high resolutions.
  • Particle layers draw about a third faster.

Versio 1.13.1

Parannukset

  • Video export: the destination is chosen in the browser's save dialog before rendering starts.
  • Video export: the dialog sums up format and sound in one line, such as "MP4 · H.264 · Sound: AAC".
  • Video export: all settings are locked while an export is running.

Versio 1.13.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • New layers under "Media": "Image" and "Video" show a file from the computer and are saved with the project. Like any layer, they can be transformed in 3D, blended and masked.
  • Video layers: start time, duration, speed (negative plays backwards), volume, and what happens at the end: hold, loop or fade out.

Versio 1.12.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • Music is saved inside the project and plays straight away when it is reopened, also on another computer; the panel shows the added file size.

Parannukset

  • Saved projects no longer contain soundtracks that have been replaced.

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Ctrl+S saved the animation slightly differently from the "Save" button.

Versio 1.11.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • Video export: MP4 and WebM are offered separately, each with its codec, and only if the browser can encode them.
  • Animation export: a "Transparency" switch keeps the alpha channel in animated PNG or fills transparent areas with the page background.

Parannukset

  • Video export: the chosen format is always used; if it cannot carry the soundtrack, the dialog warns beforehand that the video will be silent.

Versio 1.10.1

Parannukset

  • Five new gradients in new projects: Patina, Moss & Gold, Sepia & Ivory, Ember & Cyan and Peacock.

Versio 1.10.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • Video export writes directly to a chosen file, so long, high-resolution videos no longer run out of memory.

Parannukset

  • Video export: the dialog shows which format, codecs and sound embedding are actually used on this computer.
  • Video export: in browsers that cannot write files directly, the dialog warns when a video is likely to be too large.

Versio 1.9.3

Parannukset

  • Numbers are shown in the browser's format, such as 1,5 on a German system; input fields and formulas are unchanged.

Versio 1.9.2

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Domain warp: the "Animation" slider moved the whole picture in a circle instead of animating the distortion. Projects that keyframed it now animate differently.

Versio 1.9.1

Parannukset

  • Settings without effect in the chosen mode are dimmed, with a hint naming the setting that enables them.

Versio 1.9.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • Posterise: colors can also be reduced in HSV or OkLCh, with separate levels for hue and saturation.

Versio 1.8.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • New effect: "Halftone (color)" with CMYK, CMY, RGB or duotone inks whose dots form rosettes.

Versio 1.7.2

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Halftone: dots turned into squares in dark areas.

Versio 1.7.1

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Halftone: areas with small dots turned transparent instead of showing the paper color.
  • Background opacity: the slider jumped away from the pointer near zero.

Yhteensopimattomat muutokset

  • Halftone layers cover the page with their paper color; projects that relied on the old transparency need the paper color's alpha set to 0.

Versio 1.7.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • New particle layers: Lorenz, Rössler, Thomas and Halvorsen attractors in 3D, which the layer's 3D tilt rotates.

Parannukset

  • Particles: "Color by" offers "Depth".

Versio 1.6.2

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Toolbox: the pulse on previews still being drawn was barely visible.

Versio 1.6.1

Parannukset

  • Toolbox: tool previews appear one by one as they are drawn, with a pulse on tiles still waiting.

Versio 1.6.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • New layer: "Attractor particles" with the De Jong, Clifford and Svensson maps, whose coefficients can follow formulas.

Versio 1.5.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • Formulas: position, scale, rotation, 3D tilt and depth can be driven by formulas; on a group, they move all its contents.

Parannukset

  • A rotation driven by a formula can keep turning beyond the slider's range.

Versio 1.4.2

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Video export: an export started during playback left the music playing and the controls moving over a still picture.

Versio 1.4.1

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Video export could fail right at the start with a message about a module that could not be fetched.

Versio 1.4.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • Formulas also work without keyframes.
  • Every numeric parameter can be driven by a formula, including whole numbers and single components of vectors and colors.

Parannukset

  • Formula editor: the slider stays in place while typing, active formulas are visible at a glance, and the examples fit the parameter's range.

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Deleting a layer used as a mask made the masked layer disappear.
  • Timeline: pressing Del deleted the selected layer.

Versio 1.3.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • Timeline: a section can be linked to a layer, which then appears only during that part of the song.

Versio 1.2.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • Timeline: named sections whose edges snap to the beat grid.
  • Timeline: "In from here" and "Out from here" add or remove a layer for all following keyframes.

Virheenkorjaukset

  • Exported videos were silent although the dialog reported a soundtrack.
  • With a soundtrack loaded, ping-pong exports reversed while the preview did not; both now play forwards only.

Versio 1.1.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • Music: a loaded audio file shows its waveform under the timeline, and keyframes snap to a tapped beat grid.
  • Formulas: any continuous parameter can follow the music, for example base + bass * 0.4.
  • Playback stays in sync with the music.
  • Video export includes the music.

Parannukset

  • The export dialog estimates how long a render will take.

Versio 1.0.0

Uudet ominaisuudet

  • First public release: a layer-based editor with 58 generators and 33 effects, groups with their own effects, eleven blend modes and three mask modes.
  • Deep-zoom Mandelbrot and six 3D fractals.
  • Keyframe animation with smooth camera zoom and pan, onion skin and ping-pong playback.
  • Export as PNG, animated PNG, MP4 or WebM video, and as a 300 dpi PDF at physical page sizes.
  • Gradient editor with transparent stops and a gradient library in the browser.
  • Light and dark theme following the system, and automatic saving of the working session in the browser.