buddhi1980/mandelbulber2: Mandelbulber 2.11

New in v2.11

• Fractals: cleaned up names of fractal formulas
• Fractals: corrected MixPinski code
• Fractals: corrected Menger4D and Menger4D Mod1 code
• Fractals: corrected Abox - Mod1 and Abox - Mod2 code
• Fractals: upgraded the reset button on fractal tab. It now also resets iteration number and range, weight, add global C constant and check for bailout conditions
• Fractals: Updated final calculation for pseudo kleinian hybrid mode
• Fractals: Updated transform Spherical fold 4D
• Fractals: Updated Menger Cross KIFS
• Fractals: Added linear_DE_offset parameter for fine tuning of distance estimation of IFS-like formulas
• Fractals: new formulas:
  • Pseudo Kleinian - Mod 2
  • Mandelbulb - Multi2
  • Abox - Mod 11
  • T>Parab Fold
  • T>Scale Vary Abox
  • T>Spherical Fold CHS
  • T>Spherical Fold Parab
• Shaders: added rotation and scale of background texture
• Shaders: added background texture offset sliders
• Shaders: added HDR blur post-effect. This is a soft blur which can improve quality of Monte Carlo DOF effect or can be used as a standalone effect.
• Shaders: now all effects (including SSAO) are rendered using floating point image buffers (better HDR quality)
• Shaders: image brightness, contrast and gamma can be corrected without re-rendering of SSAO and DOF
• Shaders: Removed redundant HDR DOF option (now DOF is always rendered as HDR)
• Shaders: Optimized Monte Carlo DOF algorithm (50% faster). Now it uses statistical noise estimation to determine the number of needed samples.
• Shaders: Fixed bug in algorithm for reflection calculation
• Image: Added full screen antialiasing to the rendering algorithm
• Image: Added the option to save stereoscopic left and right eye, in separate image files.
• Image: Improved quality of ray-marching without any noticeable impact on rendering time. Now the distance threshold is calculated 10 times more accurately.
• UI: added the option to detach rendered image from main window. It allows for the use of two displays.
• UI: font sizes and widget sizes adapts to screen DPI and size. User interface is displayed properly on 4K high DPI displays.
• UI: Added dialog box for hybrid/boolean fractals. When any tab is selected with index > 1, then a message appears with the option to enable hybrid or boolean fractals.
• UI: detached rendered image can be displayed in full screen mode
• UI: added the option to display thirds and golden ratio grid
• UI: formulas can be searched in formula combobox
• UI: added recent settings in File menu
• UI: Added the option to place the light source behind the object
• UI: corrected colors in list of connected NetRender machines. Will now be properly displayed with dark skin.
• UI: Cursor now displays correct camera movement modes.
• UI: Material tab only appears when another material is selected.
• UI: Fractal tab renamed to Objects
• UI: There was a memory alignment problem which caused damaged toolbar icons (when width was not a multiple of 4)
• CLI: added CLI support for mesh export
• NetRender: added lzo compression (saves about ~60-70% of network bandwidth)
• NetRender: fixed reconnection issue while lookup of host (mostly with very fast Ethernet connection or localhost)
• NetRender: Program (client) crashed when connection was lost.
• Voxel export: Mesh export uses much less memory.
• Voxel export: Parallelized mesh export. Now it uses all CPU cores, so it's much faster
• Voxel export: Optimized mesh export. Voxels are pre-calculated before meshes are calculated. Calculation speed is 8 times faster.
• Voxel export: Inverted orientation of faces. Now orientation of mesh export points outwards of the object
• Voxel export: implemented binary format
• Voxel export: implemented color save for ply meshes
• Voxel export: Initialize k1om Offload feature (preview)
• Voxel export: size of meshes now is not limited (only limit is available RAM memory)
• AnimBySound: Frequency band can be selected using mouse pointer
• AnimBySound: added the option to export keyframe animation with AnimBySound to Flight animation, where it is possible to edit every frame and save all frames to settings file.
• AnimBySound: added accept button to AnimBySound dialogue
• Animation: fixed bug: There was observed a problem where checking for collisions ("Validate") showed collisions even after they were eliminated.
• Animation: corrected frame numbering on progress bar
• Animation: added frame number by keyframe number in animation table
• Examples: Added several example settings
• Examples: Added example flight animation with audio synchronization
• General: Corrected saving of window state. It was saved as "Unknown organization"
• General: Added FilePathHelper to look for missing texture or sound files in several predefined paths
• Performance: Added icon cache in FormulaComboBox. Starting of application is faster
• Performance: fixed many issues showed by CoverityScan
• Compilation: Fixed many warnings showed by clang
• Compilation: Update MSBuild Solution and NUGETS for Native Windows Build
• Documentation: added section about processing of iteration loop
• Documentation: added section about hybrid fractals
• Documentation: added section about interpolation
• Documentation: added section about flight animation
• Documentation: corrected section about camera movement
• Documentation: edited chapter about NetRender
• Documentation: corrected styles and cleaned up document structure
• Documentation: added index