What's new in FractalWorks 1.0.6
Sep 30, 2011
New in FractalWorks 1.0.5 (Sep 10, 2011)
- Bug fixes for OS 10.6, plus minor improvements.
New in FractalWorks 1.0.3 (Sep 5, 2011)
- Bug fixes for OS 10.7 (Lion) and minor improvements.
- This version also includes several new sample plots and a new color scheme.
New in FractalWorks 1.0.2 (Aug 2, 2011)
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused crashes when launching & restoring windows in OS 10.7.
- This short-term fix involves turning off restoring FractalWorks document windows. We will get window restoring working as soon as possible.
New in FractalWorks 1.0.1 (Mar 22, 2011)
New in FractalWorks 0.6.3 (Jun 21, 2010)
- Added option to embed FractalWorks URL in JPG and TIFF images and file menu "Open fractal from JPEG or TIFF" command.
New in FractalWorks 0.6.2 (Feb 12, 2010)
- Changed FractalWorks to generate shorter URLs so they are less likely to exceed the size limit for clickable links in rich text documents.
New in FractalWorks 0.6.1 (Aug 6, 2009)
- A few minor bug fixes and minor feature enhancements.
New in FractalWorks 0.6.0 (Jan 28, 2009)
- This new version allows you to create custom links that launch FractalWorks and render a 3D plot on your computer.
- It also includes a few minor user interface improvements.
New in FractalWorks 0.5.8 (Jul 27, 2008)
- Added several new color schemes and deleted some old, little-used color schemes.
- Fixed bug that caused crashes sometimes when selecting a rectangular area to plot (using command click) and dragging off the upper right corner of a plot window.
- Changed file load/save so that it remembers the current document directory correctly. This fixes a bug where loading or saving a color scheme would cause the next file load/save to point into the color schemes directory.
- Changed file menu's "Save color scheme" item so it works from a 3D view as well as from a 2D view of a fractal.
- Fixed bug that prevented 3D view window from closing sometimes when you closed a fractal plot document. When this happened, FractalWorks would crash the next time the 3D window tried to re-draw itself.
- Added 3D plot info to the get info dialog.
- Fixed bug that prevented Julia set plots from inheriting the setting of the "calculate distance estimates" when you control-click on a Mandelbrot set plot.
- Changed code so single-click plot that creates a new window inherits the "calculate fractional iteration values" setting from source plot window.
- Fixed bug that caused a crash if you closed a fractal plot when it's 3D view is being rendered.
- Added support for right-clicking on a fractal plot to zoom out, instead of using the option key.
- Fixed a bug that could cause intermittent crashes when plotting a 2D fractal
- Fixed a bug that caused crashes in the colorscheme editor when you set a color band's gradient curve to "linear" and then move the anchor point so that color band overlaps with another color band.
- Added support for copying/pasting all the settings for a 3D view, so you can move all your 3D settings from one plot to another. You have to click on the 3D view to make it the target for keystrokes before this works.
- Changed "flip plot" checkbox on 3D view window so it re-draws the plot correctly even if the 3D view was in the middle of being rendered when you clicked the checkbox.
- Fixed the "update plot" button on 3D views so it actually updates the plot in all cases.
- Fixed a bug where the background color wasn't being drawn correctly when you load a fractal plot from disk that includes a 3D view.
- Changed the code that creates a new fractal plot from an existing plot so that if it creates the plot in a new window, and the existing plot has a 3D view, it remembers the settings for the 3D view.
New in FractalWorks 0.5.6 (Apr 30, 2008)
- This version includes support for 3D plots