Apophysis is a fractal flame editor and renderer for Microsoft Windows. It was created by Mark Townsend by translating Scott Draves' original C code into Delphi and adding a GUI. It has since been improved and updated by Peter Sdobnov, Piotr Borys, and Ronald Hordijk (the SourceForge project developers). It is open source, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Apophysis has many features for creating and editing fractal flames, including an editor which allows one to directly edit the transforms that comprise the fractal flame, a mutations window, which applies random edits to the triangles, an adjust window, which allows the adjustment of coloring and location of the image, and even a scripting language with direct access to most of the components of the fractal, which allows for effects such as the animations seen in Electric Sheep, which are also fractal flames. Users can export fractal flames to other fractal flame rendering programs, such as flam3.

Recently, Apophysis has begun gaining favor among the community of deviantART. Apophysis, and competing fractal product UltraFractal, are the most popular fractal software used by fractal artists on deviantART.

Apophysis has also recently been modified to create 3D fractals, opening up whole new dimensions to experiment with.

Apophysis scripts

Apophysis uses the Scripter Studio scripting library to allow users to write scripts which run and either create a new flame, edit the existing flames, or do bigger tasks. One such instance is rendering an entire batch of fractals.

Sample images

<gallery> Image:MB Apophysis Flame.jpg Image:Fireworks fractal flame.png Image:The_Void.png Image:The Attraction.png Image:Articblades.png Image:Caster.png Image:Another Apophysis Example.jpg Image:Yet Another Apophysis Example.jpg Image:Sandstorm.png </gallery>

See also

• Fractal generating software
• Fractal art
• Fractint
• Ultra fractal
• Sterling

External links

• Apophysis.org
• SourceForge project page
• Apophysis Wiki
• Apophysis at DeviantArt
• apophysis-j : A version of Apophysis in java running on mac, linux and windows

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