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@DannyStoll1 DannyStoll1 released this 28 Nov 07:12
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This major update brings a bunch of exciting new features:

System

  • Images and palettes are now saved to appropriate user directories, allowing for Dynamo to reliably run from any working directory
    • Scripts are also now saved to an appropriate user directory
    • ⚠️ The scripting feature is not yet portable: Dynamo must be run from the project root if you wish to load and compile scripts

Interface

  • Complete rework of fractal menu to make it user-friendly
  • Periodic points and orbits can now be followed in live mode with Ctrl-F
  • Pan the view by dragging the mouse

Image

  • More options for palettes, such as using CIE XYZ color space
    • Backwards compatible with old palette files
  • Implemented distance estimation algorithm (D to toggle, arrow keys to adjust palette appropriately)
  • Fixed the micro-gaps that sometimes appeared in external rays when saving images

Annotations

  • Draw orbit portraits with Shift-O
  • Extend an external ray outward from the selected point with Shift-E
    • Whereas the angle-based external ray features (E, Y, Ctrl-E, Shift-O) use Newton's method, this feature solves an ODE. Both techniques have pros and cons:
      • On one hand, the ODE method is a lot more flexible. For instance, it can be used to draw internal rays, rays in bounded escape regions, and rays for non-monic maps.
      • On the other hand, the ODE is stiff in the "inward" direction (i.e. toward the bifurcation locus), which can lead to inaccurate results.
    • Numerical instability notwithstanding, inward ODE rays can be drawn with Shift-R. The hidden hotkey Shift-T will extend a ray in both directions.
  • Faster equipotential algorithm by using the above ODE. This allows for much deeper equipotentials than were previously possible.
  • Multiplier contours for some marked cycle curves: M for one through selection, Shift-M for many near selection

Internals

  • ~5-20% performance improvement across all profiles
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes and code cleanup
  • Two new profiles:
    • Per(2) 3-fold cover (unrolling the orbifold point $z\mapsto 1/z^2$)
    • Unicorn (desymmetrized tricorn)
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