Working with animations

Note: You will only be able to follow the steps in this tutorial if you are using Ultra Fractal 

Animation 

Edition

. In addition, if you are not already familiar with Ultra Fractal, you should work through the 

Quick Start

, 

Basic Skills

, and 

Working with layers

 tutorials first.

One of the major new features in Ultra Fractal 4 is the ability to turn any fractal into an animation 

and make a movie out of it. In this tutorial, we will start with a simple fractal and gradually turn it 

into a more and more complex animation using the various new animation features. Finally, we will 

render it as a movie.

First, close any open fractal windows to begin with an empty workspace.

Click New on the File menu, and then click Fractal. In the Select Fractal Formula browser, 

  select Phoenix (Julia) in Standard.ufm and click Open.

This opens a new fractal window with the Phoenix (Julia) fractal. Let s change the Julia Seed 

parameter of this fractal formula to make it a little more interesting.

G     

Click on the complex number below to copy it to the Clipboard.

 0.41/ 0.53

G     

Right click on the Julia Seed parameter on the Formula tab and click Paste Complex 

Value. This should fill the input boxes with  0.41 and  0.53, respectively.

Go to the Outside tab, and click the Browse button to choose another coloring algorithm. 

  Select Orbit Traps in Standard.ucl and click Open.

G     

Change the Trap Shape parameter to pinch, and set Trap Mode to inverted sum 

squared (at the end of the list).

The fractal should now look like this:

Next: 

Making a zoom movie

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