Fractal4D: First Release
Check out this temporary page for Fractal4D updates!
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Here is the first public release of Fractal4D. It is still beta, but there is a built-in auto updater that will make sure you have all the necessary updates without having to check for announcements. The auto-updater does not affect any files or directories outside of its own application directory. This is an AIR app, so you will need Adobe AIR to use it. Please leave feedback, comments, and suggestions.
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Notes:
- It defaults to exporting an illustrator script. If you want to save an image, you must uncheck “Export to Illustrator” in the Options menu.
- Version 1.22 is going through changes with easing methods. The only one that exports exactly for illustrator is linear. The others are undergoing changes. Sorry.
- Better documentation and cleaner menus are coming!
If you find any bugs let me know. I am going to fix the ones that exist and you will all be updated automatically when this happens. I wanted to get this out before Thanksgiving and there is substantial to play with and get familiar with before these bugs will affect you. I will also be adding an additional hotkey to simulate a mouse click to start/stop your lines.
More to come! View the other posts to see some demo videos.
Videos:
Exporting Illustrator - http://mattkenefick.com/blog/2008/11/f4d-export-to-illustrator/
General Options - http://mattkenefick.com/blog/2008/11/f4d-general-options-demo/
Color Shifting - http://mattkenefick.com/blog/2008/11/f4d-color-shifting-demo/
Examples:
November 28th, 2008 at 3:48 am
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November 29th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
there is an error when i try to import a exported f4d script in illustrator cs4.
i found this in the script: “var lineList = [ ]];”
i replaced it with “var lineList = [ ];”
now i dont get an error but nothing shows up on my illustrator document
November 29th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
@Jonas.
It sounds like you are trying to export an empty recording. This is caused when you accidentally start recording, but do not draw any lines. Right now, it just creates a recording where nothing happens. When you export this, it seems to cause an error because there are no points to follow.
I have noted this and this should not be an issue soon enough. I will make it so that if you do not draw anything, a recording will not be saved.
Thanks for the heads up!
November 29th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
@Jonas
Updated. Changes made to recording area and exporting to illustrator. There should be fewer problems and more user awareness of what is happening. Keep your updater on and you’ll have this update automatically. If not, turn it on for the time being to grab it!
November 30th, 2008 at 5:44 am
ah thanks matt! it works!
the problem was i didn’t hit record at all. i thought i just have to draw the fractal an then hit the save button to export it.
maybe you could implement some kind of warning when you’re about to export an empty sketch so the people know they have to hit record first.
great application dude, can’t believe how little feedback you got here. you should submit this to some flash and (graphic)design blogs!
November 30th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Matt Im trying to import to AI and I can see the .jsx file but wont load to cs3 any suggestions?
why not record the session and then have the option to be imported to After Effects.-
Thanks for sharing
g
November 30th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
@Jonas
After the update, it should give you an error saying “Nothing found to record” if you haven’t created anything while recording. It won’t let you save an empty recording either, so this error shouldn’t show up again.
Thanks for the kind words! I’m spreading it around slowly.
November 30th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
@Gerardo
Recording is actually pretty intensive and requires a lot of space. I’m going to be implementing some space saving techniques quietly that will just lower file size and such, but right now it is intensive.
Are you getting any errors when trying to import the JSX? When you press the Play icon in F4D, that is the recording you will be getting in your JSX file. If nothing plays while in the app, it will not be exporting anything.
I have not looked into any AE importing but I feel like it will be a LOT more involved. This isn’t to say I can’t/won’t do it in the future, but it will take time.
December 2nd, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Wonderful app Matt and thanks for sharing. I just loved it, Keep it up
January 30th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
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February 2nd, 2009 at 11:28 am
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February 19th, 2009 at 1:02 am
Really awesome work! have you ever thought of also creating the script directly in AI, I’m sure there are a lot of people who would love to use something similar but have no idea what flash offers. None the less amazing.
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:19 am
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March 5th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Love it! Amazing work. So nicely done.
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March 30th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Nice app. I can’t seem to save to Illustrator on a Mac though. PNG saves fine, but with “export illustrator” checked the save button doesn’t do anything.
March 30th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Great little app, thanks for sharing! You might be interested in an Illustrator scripting plugin called scriptographer (www.scriptographer.com) that uses java to easily create custom tools.
It’s an open source project with great potential, but not enough contributors.
March 31st, 2009 at 3:43 am
amazing application for making abstract backgrounds. downloading it now.
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March 31st, 2009 at 9:46 am
I can’t get this to install on my Mac? I have AIR installed, but the AIR installer won’t let me choose the Fractal4DFinal folder or its contents. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
March 31st, 2009 at 10:03 am
I figured it out, my Mac was decompressing your ZIP file incorrectly.
March 31st, 2009 at 9:09 pm
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simply amazing. i love it.
April 1st, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Great tool! Thanks so much for developing it!
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Got it downloaded but can’t launch it. I’m on a MAC.
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:44 pm
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April 4th, 2009 at 3:29 am
@AC Do you have AIR installed? http://get.adobe.com/air/
April 5th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
That’s cool. Thanks. Supporting…
April 6th, 2009 at 7:12 am
Nice work
April 8th, 2009 at 10:33 am
i have air, but im having trouble installing?
April 13th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
I am having trouble as well, everything installed fine, but when run the program its sits on the “reading fractal/app/starter.dll” screen, and wont do anything else… I can’t wait to finally use it, sounds great!
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:58 am
excellent work rather inspring to see mathematics and art in one blob
thanks
April 23rd, 2009 at 10:06 am
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April 26th, 2009 at 1:10 am
I’m having a problem. I’m not very tech-savvy.
I downloaded Adobe Air and installed it. I then download F4D, but the what do I do? It’s a folder with a bunch of files in it, none that I can open other then icons and Terminal ones.
I’m running on a Mac PowerPC chip, with Leopard. Help me out? Thanks.
May 11th, 2009 at 4:04 am
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May 15th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
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May 20th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Absolutely brilliant application.
I cannot even begin to imagine all the cool ways I will be able to Fractal4D to use
June 6th, 2009 at 7:23 am
Hi, creators of F4D. I am a student and don’t have money yet to donate, a kind of poor man of 20 yrs. But its my promise I do something good and must share with you and hope it should be upper than the donation.
Cheers
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June 7th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
illustrator dosyası olarak kaydetmiyor lutfen yardım edin …
June 16th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
I got a new computer, now it works like a dream. Thanks, its Amazing
June 17th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
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July 3rd, 2009 at 10:01 am
Hi, I have a problem, I don’t know where it save the fractal after create it!
Any suggestions?
I hit save button but nothing happens!
July 3rd, 2009 at 10:16 am
Found them
lol, that’s wird, first hit recording, then save it 
It was confusing because it start to create alone!
July 18th, 2009 at 5:07 am
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July 22nd, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Anyone else having trouble getting this to install on a mac?
July 26th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
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July 30th, 2009 at 12:12 am
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July 30th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Looks a great program but i’m afraid i have no idea how to install it, once downloaded and extracted its just a bunch of files all of them internet shortcuts of 1Kb size. any help would be great.
i DO have AIR installed and a bunch of other AIR apps running fine.
August 4th, 2009 at 12:37 am
Wow, a simple but great app, shows what AIR can do and a nifty graphics effect too, nice job!
August 10th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
i just downloaded Fractal4D. Once I figured out what I was looking at, I realized that this is probably the most awesome app on my desktop. Thanks for making it and for making it available.
August 14th, 2009 at 1:45 am
Wow! Great work. I think there’s lot more room to create apps like this.
Check out mine if you have a chance. http://www.livebrush.com (I’ll be happy to send you a free copy).
Take care,
David
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August 30th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
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September 1st, 2009 at 5:59 pm
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September 2nd, 2009 at 12:44 pm
I will never ever get any work done again. Ever. This is so awesome, thank you!
September 16th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Hi guys,
To install the program all you need is RENAME the file. By doing these you will CHANGE the file extension from .zip >> to .air.
Fractal4DFinal.air.zip to Fractal4DFinal.air
You will notice the icon changed to Air file.
Then just double click to install the file.
Enjoy !!
Great Tools !!
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October 11th, 2009 at 5:36 am
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October 16th, 2009 at 10:45 am
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October 19th, 2009 at 9:31 am
awesome……I gotto use this very soon…..
October 20th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Thanks for sharing, say, do you have a twitter to follow?
October 20th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
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October 25th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Really enjoy the ease of the app. Thanks.
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October 26th, 2009 at 7:44 am
Hi!
Amazing app! I love it!
Little bug: In the BG color selector I cant change the hex code.
P
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:45 pm
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November 8th, 2009 at 7:46 am
Fantastic! Amazing! I like it!…The only bug: there isn’t the possibility to change colour with the code…
November 12th, 2009 at 4:37 am
i just upgraded to windows 7 and now fractal4d is not saving anything to my desktop. before (on xp) when i hit the save button some type of text would pop up on screen telling me it saved, and not it does not do this nor create any file…
November 19th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
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December 21st, 2009 at 7:30 am
Great work. Thanks!
December 21st, 2009 at 10:56 am
Good app. Feature rich. Thanks.
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December 30th, 2009 at 2:38 am
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January 24th, 2010 at 10:21 am
Matt,
You’ve done a great job with this application and I’ll definitely be looking at using this in some of my Adobe Illustrator projects. Thanks for developing this. Is there a way to export to video as uncompressed AVI, MOV using other applications and the script file or is a screen capture the easiest way?
Anyway…excellent work!
Pete
January 29th, 2010 at 6:42 am
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January 30th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
This is the best piece of AIR app I have ever used. Absolutely great.
February 8th, 2010 at 10:47 am
It’s very good application but I’ve got a problem with “blur”… it doesn’t work properly…The fractal disappear quickly….
February 12th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
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March 2nd, 2010 at 8:05 am
I’m having some trouble with the ’stagger effect’. In the program it gives a spendid effect, but when you import the script file into illustrator, the effect is gone and you are left with an ‘ordinary’ fractal. Can it be fixed?
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I used it. Its awsome.
April 25th, 2010 at 2:36 am
感觉很不错
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