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Tips and Tricks

JWildfire is a pretty neat program with many hidden features to help you be more efficient. If you’re looking for some tips & tricks to make using it easier, check out these pages that give some helpful hints. Frequently, there are undocumented methods or techniques discovered by accident that make using the software that much easier.

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Use less CPU

CPU can take a hammering with JWildfire, here’s how to reduce CPU use.

Categories Tips and Tricks Tags fan, Michael Bourne, preferences, settings
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Increasing JWildfire Font Size

Squinting to read the interface? Here’s how to increase the font size.

Categories Tips and Tricks Tags font, preferences, settings, text
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Total control over coloring

More control over coloring with JWildfire.

Categories Tips and Tricks Tags Brad, Fractal, tutorial
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Motion blurs on single image fractals

Give the illusion of movement and more realism on a single flame.

Categories Tips and Tricks Tags andreas, blur, Fractals, motion, tutorial
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Organise your pics into Folders based on date or other ways

How can I organise my huge collection by date?

Categories Tips and Tricks Tags memory, Michael Bourne, software
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Cleaning up an Image

Trying to reduce noisy/grainy looking fractals? Some tips here.

Categories Tips and Tricks Tags Michael Bourne, Michael Hobbs, Tracy Colello, variations
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Tweaking the Colours in Yugen Scripts

Playing with the colours for the Yugen scripts, getting more out of them.

Categories Tips and Tricks Tags Heather Law, scripts, tweaking
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Use julian and pre_post mobius to make a straight line

Create a straight line using the julian and pre_post_mobius variations.

Categories Tips and Tricks Tags julian, line, linear
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Parplot non solid final

Brad Stefanov Use parplot with the solid variable set to 0 as a final … Details

Categories Tips and Tricks Tags 3d, Fractals, parplot
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How to embed an escape time formula into a c_var variation

Tricky concept, explained well by Thomas.

Categories How to, Tips and Tricks Tags c_var, variation
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Complex Numbers Operations for c_var & cut_c variations – Jesus Sosa

Good tutorial by Jesus explaining the new complex number techniques for JWildfire.

Categories Reference, Tips and Tricks Tags complex, java, Jesus Sosa, variation, variations
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Cut_ variations by Jesús Sosa

The new cut variations are so cool, so much fun to play with, Jesus explains more here.

Categories Information, Reference, Tips and Tricks Tags shape, square, variation, variations
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    Robert, Thanks, these look so awesome! Can't wait to play!

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    Hi,thank you for the tutorial,It's really helpful I seem to have a problem here After I pasted the code ,it…

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    It's my pleasure Teri, hope you make some amazing art with it.

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    Thank you so much for saying so, I hope you have fun with them. :)

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