Version history for Mandelbulber for Mac OS X

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Changes for v2.21 - v2.22

• Added new fractal formulas
• aboxMod14
• mandelcup
• menger3
• mengerChebyshev
• octahedron
• riemannSphereMsltoeM3d
• sierpinski3dV2
• sierpinski3dV3
• spheretree
• transfAbsRecFoldXY
• transfBoxTilingV2
• transfDELinearCube
• transfDIFSHexprism
• transfRotationChebyshev
• transfSphericalFoldV2
• transfStepXY
• modified fractal formulas
• sierpinski3d, fixed add reverse
• transfDEControls pk offset default = 1
• Custom formulas: Added custom formula editor
• inserting parameters from the list
• dynamic UI for parameters existing in custom code
• syntax highlighting
• auto indenting
• syntax checking
• loading of build-in formulas
• saving of formula code in .fract files
• loading/saving of formula code in text files
• auto formatting with clang-format
• customization of font size
• Randomizer: Added option to not randomize camera when animated parameters from keyframe editor
• Randomizer: Added STOP button to Randomizer
• Randomizer: fixed bug: not finished renderings of previews caused high CPU load
• Voxel export: Added export of greyscale voxel layers
• Shaders: fixed bug: Ambient Occlusion (Multiple Rays with light map) produced color noise
• OpenCL: corrected occurrences of double precision constants which caused compiler errors on MacOS
• Files: Added camera top vector to image metadata (issue #722)
• Files: Added options for zbuffer saving: inverting z-buffer, logarithmic scale, constant depth range
• Compilation: fixed bug: Corrected location of formula/definition files is source package
• Compilation: added missing option which includes SVG library to AppImage
• Compilation: Fixed problem with missing sources when cmake is used (issue #784)
• Examples: cleaned settings of most of the examples

Changes for v2.20 - v2.21

• Added new fractal formulas:
• aboxSphere4d
• aboxTetra4d
• fastMandelbox
• foldCutCube
• koch
• kochV2
• kochV3
• knotV1
• knotV2
• mandalayBoxV1
• mandalayBoxV2
• mandalayKifs
• mengerV2
• mengerV3
• pseudoKleinianMod3
• transfMandalayFoldV1
• transfMandalayFoldV2
• transfSinAdd
• transfSphericalFoldV1
• transfDIFSTorusGrid
• transfDEControls BETA
• modified fractal formulas:
• pseudoKleinianStdDE change to std r bailout & aux.dist DE
• scatorPower2 change to std r bailout & aux.dist DE
• scatorPower2Imaginary change to std r bailout
• scatorPower2Real change to std r bailout
• Randomizer: Added Randomizer tool for interactive-random modifying of settings
• randomizing algorithm which considers parameters hierarchy
• visual comparison of results with threshold based on noise level
• repeating randomizing of results similar to base image
• repeating randomizing of results similar to any other version
• repeating randomizing of blank images
• 3 different randomizimg levels
• saving settings of particular variant to .fract file
• displaying of randomized parameters in tooltips
• option to reset negligible parameters
• option to add randomized parameters to keyframe animation
• checkbox to disable randomizing of integers and booleans
• options in preferences to customize size and quality of previews
• tool can be launched from any dock, group-box, globally or from keyframes editor.
• OpenCL: implemented adaptive anti-aliasing algorithm
• UI: Added tool for global cleaning up of settings
• UI: Changed FOV to be in degrees
• Shaders: Fixed problem with very high brightness of multi ray AO when OpenCL was disabled
• Code: Refactored fractal_cormulas.cpp file. Now all fractal formula definitions are in separate .cpp files are derived form cAbstractFractal class.
• Fixed bug: in many OpenCL formulas were used double precision constants. Compilation of OpenCL kernels failed on MacOS.
• Fixed bug: added missing libsndfile for MacOS builds

Changes for v2.17 - v2.20

• What is new:
• Added new fractal formulas
• amazingSurfMod4
• riemannSphereHoboldPow4
• riemannSphereHoboldPow8
• riemannSphereHoboldMulti
• mandelbulbKosalos
• mandelbulbKosalosV2
• mandelbulbLambda
• transfAddConstantMod2
• transfAddConstantRotV1
• transfScaleOffset
• transfScaleOffsetV2
• dIFSBoxV1
• dIFSBoxDiagonalV1
• dIFSBoxDiagonalV3
• dIFSCylinder
• dIFSEllipsoid
• dIFSHextgrid2
• dIFSMenger
• dIFSMsltoeDonut
• dIFSPrism
• dIFSSphere
• dIFSTorus
• transfDIFSBox
• transfDIFSBoxV2
• transfDIFSBoxV3
• transfDIFSCylinder
• transfDIFSCylinderV2
• transfDIFSEllipsoid
• transfDIFSGrid
• transfDIFSGridV2
• transfDIFSHextgrid2
• transfDIFSPrism
• transfDIFSPrismV2
• transfDIFSSphere
• transfDIFSTorus
• transfDIFSTorusV2
• transfDIFSTorusV3
• modified fractal formulas
• boxFoldBulbPow2V3, added sphere invert
• transfRotationIterControls, fix order of rotations
• msltoeSym4Mod, added mul and fixed scale
• aboxMod13,add missing sphere fold iter controls
• transfSurfBoxFoldV24d = 1104, // duplicated number 1089
• aexion, convert to analytic
• quaternion4d, convert to analytic
• quaternionCubic4d, convert to analytic
• quickDudley, convert to analytic
• quickDudleyMod, convert to analytic
• lkmitch, convert to analytic
• makin3d2, convert to analytic
• riemannSphereMsltoeV1, convert to analytic
• riemannSphereMsltoeV2, convert to analytic
• benesiMagTransforms, convert to analytic
• transfBenesiCubeSphere, convert to analytic
• transfBenesiSphereCube, convert to analytic
• transfBenesiT3, covert to analytic
• transfBenesiT4, covert to analytic
• transfBenesiT5b, covert to analytic
• aexionOctopusMod, add Force Analytic option
• sierpinski3d, fixed DE
• Fractals: added dIFS distance estimation mode
• Fractals: Fixed issue #725. In some cases (only dummy iteration), colorIndex was uninitialized (noise on images)
• Fractals: Fixed problem #737 (lack of coloring when slot#1 is disabled)
• Fractals: Force analytic DE now works in non-hybrid mode
• Fractals: Fixed problem #685. There was incomplete bailout condition for coloring mode.
• NetRender: added network distributed rendering of animations (also with
• OpenCL). Server controls rendering animation and distributes rendering of
• animation frames to all connected clients. Finished image frames and sent back
• to the server.
• NetRender: clients can pull textures and audio files from server
• Shaders: Added color property for ambient occlusion effects
• Shaders: Added fill light (0-order ambient occlusion)
• Primitives: Added boolean operators for primitive objects
• Primitives: Added parameter to control water progression speed in animation
• Tools: Added Mandelbulber VFX Tools by Adrian Meyer
• UI: Re-organized order in fractal list
• UI: Colorized sections in comboBox with fractal list
• UI: Added hotkey F11 to toggle full screen mode
• UI: rendering of Julia set preview now is done by OpenCL
• UI: Added Spanish language (translated by Jorge Abalo)
• UI: Fixed bug #721. Deleted second material sometimes was really deleted and caused problems with Undo
• UI: Fixed problem with Queue hanging program when deleting items from queue table
• UI: add new generalized image file save with hotkey. This allows for all image
• file formats. The file format is derived from the given extension.
• Examples: used $SHARED_DIR to substitute hardcoded texture paths
• Examples: added many new examples
• Files: Changed EXR compression from ZIP16 to ZIP1
• Compilation: Changed to use OpenCL/cl2.hpp (cl.hpp is already depreciated) with OpenCL 1.2 compatibility macros
• Compilation: Changed xcode version to 9.4.1 for MacOS builds
• Compilation: Fixed many errors showed by CoverityScan

Changes for v2.16 - v2.17

• Main change in version 2.17 is added support for multiple GPUs. Now there is possible parallel computation of fractals on all available OpenCL devices within selected OpenCL platform.
• New in 2.17:
• Added new fractal formulas
• josKleinianV2
• mandelbulbAtan2Power2
• bristorbrot2
• mandeltorus
• mandelbulbEye
• transfBoxWrap4d
• transfSphericalInvV2 BETA
• added sphere inversion to PseudoKleinian and Jos Kleinian
• fixed scale in transfAbsAddConditional 3d & 4d
• fixed type2 fold in amazingSurfMod2
• OpenCL: Added support for multi-GPU rendering
• OpenCL: Rendering by GPUs moved to separate thread. Image processing and refreshing doesn't slow down rendering and GPUs can be utilized to 100%
• OpenCL: Added reservation of GPU time for the system
• OpenCL: Improved quality of volumetric effects in OpenCL mode (when the distance from camera varies greatly)
• OpenCL: improved error handling
• OpenCL: Thumbnails in PreviewFileDialog are now rendered using OpenCL (or using CPU if distance to fractal is less than 1e-5)
• Fractals: Corrected rendering of fractal cross-sections
• Fractals:
• Fixed problem with Pseudo Kleinian fractal which don't use maxiter and interior mode
• Shaders: Added new properties for material color:
• luminosity color the same as object color
• color of reflections
• color of reflections the same as object color
• color of transparency
• color of transparency the same as object color
• Shaders: Added roughness property to materials
• Shaders: Fixed variation in brightness between different image resolutions when "connect detail level with image resolution" was enabled.
• Shaders: Fixed bug causing wrong appearance of specular highlights when diffusionTextureIntensity was low and texture mapping was disabled.
• Shaders: Fixed bug: glow was not calculated on CPU with interior mode
• Shaders: There was missing updating input.delta in volumetric shader (CPU code) - issue #614
• Shaders: Fixed bug #618. Max distance for SSAO was limited to 100.0
• Shaders: Fixed bug in AmbientOcclusion shader (wrong appearance when maxiter reached)
• Shaders: Corrected code for non-DE shading mode to not use distance estimationat all.
• UI: Added displaying of last rendered tiles with noise statistics when MC is used.
• UI: Fixed not working Reset (local reset) buttons
• UI: Local Load/Save buttons now do not load/save animation data (caused problems with loading partial settings)
• UI: Corrected tooltips in Load/Save/Reset buttons
• UI: Refreshing of thumbnails can occupy not more threads than total number of CPU cores
• UI: Reduced minimum width of navigation dock
• UI: Substituted load/save/reset buttons with smaller icon buttons
• UI: Fixed bug #602 - mouse dragging sometimes continued when mouse buttons were released
• Queue: Fixed problem with locking rendering engine by updating of Queue thumbnails
• Files: Added option to save each image channel in a separate directory
• CLI: Added --gpuall (-G) CLI option to use all available GPU devices

Changes for v2.15 - v2.16

• Added new fractal formulas
• mandelbulbAbsPower2
• mandelbulbPow2V2
• riemannSphereMsltoeV2
• aboxSurfBox
• boxFoldBulbMenger
• vicsek
• transfSurfBoxFoldV2
• transfSurfBoxFoldV24d
• UI: Added rotation of the camera by mouse dragging (left mouse button)
• UI: Added rotation of the camera around indicated point by mouse dragging (right mouse button)
• UI: Added roll of the camera by mouse dragging (middle mouse button)
• UI: Added moving of the camera by mouse dragging (left+right mouse buttons)
• UI: Added selective loading and saving of settings. Each dock and tab has own load/save buttons
• UI: Several improvements of popup sliders (added "-" button, corrected handling of negative numbers and zeros)
• OpenCL: fixed problem with loading OpenCL ICD under Windows with newest NVidia drivers (missing OpenCL platforms)
• OpenCL: Preselect 1st GPU device in preferences when open for the first time
• OpenCL: corrected loading of setting for selected OpenCL device
• OpenCL: corrected changing of active GPU device during runtime
• OpenCL: added error handling for missing or wrong selection of GPU device
• OpenCL: added "Job size multiplier" option which can speed up rendering
• OpenCL: Reduced inlining of CalculateFractal and CalculateDistance. Calculation of fractals with DeltaDE is about twice faster. Compilation of OpenCL kernels with DeltaDE is also much faster.
• File: Implemented optional specular image channel and saving in separate image file
• UI: fixed bug: Corrected error messages which could cause program crashes
• UI: added context menu for all comboBoxes
• Shaders: Volumetric light from maim light source was visible when this light was disabled
• Compilation: win32 platform is no longer supported

Changes for v2.14 - v2.15

• Added new fractal formulas
• aboxModKaliV3
• scatorPower2Real
• scatorPower2
• scatorPower2StdR
• transfSinOrCos
• transfSinAndCos
• transfSinAndCosMax
• transfBlockify BETA
• transfAddCpixelScator
• transfAddCpixelSinOrCos
• OpenCL: implemented texture mapping for color
• OpenCL: implemented texture mapping for luminosity
• OpenCL: implemented texture mapping for diffusion
• OpenCL: implemented normal maps
• OpenCL: Implemented normal maps based on greyscale bump maps
• OpenCL: Implemented displacement maps (also 16-bit depth)
• OpenCL: added bicubic interpolation for textures
• OpenCL: added Fractalize Texture effect.
• OpenCL: implemented GPU accelerated mesh export.
• OpenCL: implemented GPU accelerated voxel export.
• OpenCL: added suggestion for memory limit in OpenCL tab. Information is based on CL_DEVICE_MAX_MEM_ALLOC_SIZE
• OpenCL: fixed bug in background shader. Background brightness parameter was not used
• OpenCL: eliminated differences in shadow calculation between CPU ond OpenCL code. There was a difference in brightness when detailLevel <> 1.0
• OpenCL: optimized compilation of OpenCL programs when textures or primitives are used. It can increase available OpenCL max workgroup size
• OpenCL: Changed default OpenCL mode to "full"
• OpenCL: fixed bug: There was difference in background brightness OpenCL versus CPU
• Fractals: improved color compatibility between c++ and openCL
• Fractals: restructured analytic functions to provide flexibility in Hybrid Mode.
• Fractals: improved calculation of mixed type hybrid fractals. Rendering is much faster and better quality. Now there is used analytic distance estimation if all used formulas have analytic DE functions.
• Fractals: fixed bug in repeat function used in boolean mode
• Shaders: added Monte Carlo Global Illumination effect
• Shaders: added Monte Carlo Chromatic Aberration effect for camera lenses and transparent objects
• Shaders: added Monte Carlo soft shadows
• Shaders: added Monte Carlo anti-aliasing (enabled when Monte Carlo effects are used)
• Shaders: optimized noise estimation for MC algorithms. Noise is not overestimated in very bright spots
• Shaders: added option to have all random lights in one color
• Shaders: added maxIterationTrim parameter for iter fog
• Shaders: added option to disable shadows for iter fog
• Shaders: added option to change distance of volumetric fog from fractal surface
• Shaders: implemented improved specullar reflections which allows to rendered metallic surfaces covered with lacquer
• Shaders: corrected texture mapping in Global Illumination algorithm
• Shaders: optimized rendering of random lights (about 10 times faster)
• Shaders: fixed bug: Program crashed when post effects were updated just after image size change
• Shaders: fixed bug: main light source was visible when was disabled
• UI: added loading of textures directly from Internet (by providing URL instead of local file path)
• UI: corrected FileSelectWidget to show textures loaded from Internet
• UI: corrected refreshing of PreviewFileDialog (button Add to presets was visible only after preview was rendered)
• UI: increased initial progressiveSteps for faster previews
• UI: fixed issue of pressing "M"-button causing alert dialog loop
• UI: changed Generate button in preferences dialog to recreate cache for all examples files and all files from settings folder.
• UI: reduced quality of MC effects in thumbnails to speed up rendering of previews
• UI: fixed bug: program hanged when light was placed behind floor object
• UI: fixed bug: program hanged when 'render' was clicked while random lights were being placed.
• UI: fixed bug: program crashed when non-existing material was assigned to any object
• UI: fixed problems with loading textures from https pages
• UI: cleaned up MC effects - possible to enable without DOF
• Image: corrected interpolation of image preview - shifted by half of pixel
• Settings: save image_proportion to fract-settings file
• Mesh export: corrected calculation of limits in Mesh Export. The object had holes on the sides (on cutting planes). It caused problems with slicing on 3D printing software.
• Mesh export: Fixed problems with saving extremely big meshes
• Files: Corrected saving of EXR images (was used 16-bit buffer instead of floating point)
• Compilation: program checked and cleaned up with clang-tidy
• Compilation: Used QScopedPointer and QSharedPointer in many classes
• fixed compile problems on older qt versions

Changes for v2.09-3 - v2.10

• AnimBySound: Added option to animate any parameter using sound wave (added "Anim By Sound" buttons in animation table)
• AnimBySound: Added dialog window to load and setup AnimBySound feature
• AnimBySound: Added views for waveform, fft and animation generated from sound
• AnimBySound: It is possible to load wav, ogg, flac (all operating systems) and mp3 (Linux only)
• AnimBySound: Added binary, decay and smooth filters for animation generated from sound
• AnimBySound: Added sound player
• Settings: added description field for fractal settings
• Settings: fixed bug: there was not possible to load settings saved with CR+LF line terminations
• Settings: material #1 was not saved properly to settings file when was previously loaded using "Load material..." option.
• Added new fractal formulas:
• Menger - Prism Shape2
• MixPinski 4D
• Sierpinski 3D
• Sierpinski 4D
• Menger 4D
• Menger 4D Mod1
• Menger - Smooth
• Menger - Smooth Mod1
• Menger - Octo
• Abox 4D
• Transform - SurfBoxFold
• Transform - Octo Fold
• Transform - ScaleVaryVCL
• Transform - Spherical_Fold_VaryVCL
• Transform - Add exp2(z)
• Transform - Reciprocal3
• Transform - Reciprocal 4D
• Transform - Rotated Folding
• Transform - FabsAddConditional
• Transform - Reciprocal 4D
• Transform - FabsAddConditional 4D
• Transform - Spherical_OffsetVCL
• Transform - Rotation 4D
• Fractals: Various updates, fixes and enhancements to existing formulas and transforms
• Fractals: fixed bug: after swapping of formula slots, the Mandelbulb formula appeared on random slots.
• German translation for all formula UIs
• Shaders: in some cases there was wrong calculation of object colors in boolean mode
• Shaders: fixed bug in DOF algorithm which could cause crashes
• Animation: Improved gamepad integration for flight animations
• Animation: Added image with gamepad keymap (tooltip)
• Animation: there is displayed correct message when first frame was equal to last frame
• Animation: increased maximum value in frames per keyframe spinbox to 10000
• Animation: fixed bug: there was possible to get different interpolation type (random one) for each frame
• Animation: fixed bug: check for collision showed false messages even if errors were already corrected
• Materials/Animation: fixed bug: program crashed with animation, when there was an added parameter from material which was previously loaded using "Load material" button
• Materials/Animation: fixed bug: program crashed with animation, when there was an added parameter from material which was previously edited using dialog called by Edit Material button
• UI: Image quality settings added to file selector for images
• UI: Corrected resolution lock function
• UI: auto-refresh is now disabled when brightness, gamma, contrast or HDR is changed
• UI: added information in fractal formula information box about examples which use the formula
• UI: changed and added more keyboard shortcuts for camera navigation
• UI: fixed bug: When the group box of primitives was saved and then loaded the group was always enabled
• UI: when dark theme is used then text color in animation table is always black
• UI: added Dutch language
• UI: added options to store/restore different layouts (states) of docks
• UI: navigation dock is locked when flight is being recorded
• UI: fixed bug: When boolean mode was selected, the displayed DE type was displayed as "DE unknown"
• UI: fixed bug: Refreshing of DOF and image adjustments now is blocked during rendering of image
• Voxel export: added automatic calculation of bounding box
• Voxel export: Added ability to export 3D meshes in *.ply format
• General: changed data folder from .mandelbulber (hidden) to mandelbulber (not hidden)
• General: changed default folder for animation frames to ~/mandelbulber/animation
• General: fixed bug: Wrong file names when contained dot
• CLI: added stdin input for CLI arguments
• CLI: added --benchmark option which calculates total time needed to render all examples in low resolution
• Performance: fixed several memory leaks
• Performance: eliminated crash reason: added Added QMutexLocker() to all getters and setters for in cParameterContainer class.
• Performance: Animation player widget caused crashes when frames were deleted from image folder
• Documentation: Added help menu with user manual (beta version)
• Examples: Added many example settings with most of new formulas.
• Compilation: main window UI file divided onto several smaller UIs, this has improved compilation performance
• Compilation: used a lot of forward declarations to reduce compilation time
• Compilation: code is now fully compatible with msvc
• Compilation: created solution file for msvc14 with all needed NuGet packages
• Compilation: configured Appveyor to test msvc++ builds
• Compilation: a lot of cleaning up of the code
• Compilation: much improved populateUiInformation.php script
• Compilation: added export CXXFLAGS="-march=native to install script

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