Finally, after about 10 years of “abstinence” I started a new public project: JWildfire.
JWildfire is the spiritual successor of the award winning special effect program Wildfire\7PPC for the Amiga – but this time implemented in Java and with a more sophisticated user interface and more cool effects 
You can download the latest binaries right here at this site, where the source code is hosted a GitHub.
Key Features:
- containing the most complete and versatile Flame fractal editor available
- stunning 3D effects (such as wave3D, water, twirl3d, …)
- 3D effect superimposition (e. g. wave3D interference)
- image composition (layers, even for HDR images)
- image generators (perlin noise, cloud generator, plasma, …)
- many “common” image processing effects in 2D (such as twirl, erode, convolve, …)
- simple, powerful and visual appealing graphical user interface
- Sunflow renderer integration for high quality rendering (experimental)
- robust and object-oriented software-design, easy to extend
- runs on any major platform which features a Java runtime (does not mean that you need a Java plugin for your Web browser)
Because JWildfire makes use of the new Nimbus Theme and some advanced rendering features (and a newer JDK usually is faster than the previous version) the latest JDK is recommended.
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Dude, thanks for putting this thing together. Your work with it looks awesome!
Good software i download now:)
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Have fun
I tried many fractal generators and they were all so complicated and so slow. When I saw fractals made by one girl on deviantart, I instantly fell in love with this software. I am using it for few days now and I am totally addicted! Awesome work, Andreas! Thank you so much for making fractal art available to begginers!
Thank you very much for your kind feedback
Best regards and have fun,
Andreas
Great Job! This is the best flame editor animation software yet! Super stoked to use it. And you incorporated audio!
thanks for the awesome software
cheers
Keith
Thank you very much
Your work certainly is a recommendation. I would like to find an executable
version, in a cloud, or be able to install such w/o worrying about my Java
server in any way….As an ex-Oracle developer, I have had it with Java,
and simply am interested in good (not “graduate student programming”)
interfaces and APIs, which are always the best indicator of good functionality. Is there a distribution version of the software, that doesn’t take more than 30 minutes to install (by an experienced IT person) in win XP please?
Hi, there is no need to install if you already have a Java runtime. Just extract the *.zip to any drawer and invoke the start.bat. Should be done in 30 seconds
hey Andreas, i have a couple questions, how do i get different gradients to jwildfire? and also are there any new scripts or how do i get scripts to jwildfire? btw i love this program!:)
rick~
Hello!
Have to say, love the work. But whenever I tried to launch, I got “Error: Unable to access jarfile j-wildfire-launcher.jar”. What should I do?
Hi,
please extract the contents of the *.zip -file you downloaded to any folder on your harddisk, enter this drawer and invoke the start.bat (if you are using the Windows OS). On other operating systems just invoke the j-wildfire-launcher.jar directly. If this does not work, please contact me again per mail.
Andreas
Hi Andreas,
I have just started working with JWildfire on a Mac, and I am getting the “Java Heap Space” message when I set the resolution too high on certain flame renderings. Somewhere I thought I saw that Heap Size could be changed from Startup Options. If so, how do I get to JWildfire Startup Options? If not, how do I set up/change the Heap Size for JWildfire on a Mac?
Hi,
you specify the amount of memory in the launcher, general hints regarding the launching of the program are covered in the supplied document “README_LAUNCH.txt”
Best regards,
Andreas