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To all Mandelbulb3D friends.

Most probably you have heard that has announced a X-mas gift.

Since the original programmer Jesse had stopped the development there was a larger gap in development of our favorite tool - until Andreas alias thargor6 decided to step in as main developer, and until Jesse decided to move the program to open source.
Now, after several months of work Andreas has uploaded the ready made binaries of Mandelbulb3D v190 to the download page on Fractal Forums - at December-24th.

Again - Andreas & Team - Thank you very much for your work. I think it will bring really fresh life into the MB3D community.

The version step sounds small, and yes, you can work with MB3D v190 as you have worked before.

But besides the introduction of GUI theming there are a number of new major features which are listed at download page on Fractal Forums , or at Andreas' homepage entry .

I want to provide a basic tutorial of one of those new features - the just-in-time formula compiler, and the related formula editor.
It does NOT talk about triplex maths, or about theory of dynamic systems. No fear
The tutorial just describes my first experiences using those new features. It provides steps, and screenshots which should allow you to create an own formula.

Note on performance:
Please note that formulas written for the JIT compile *are* slower than the original hand made machine code formulas from Jesse, Luca, M.Benesi etc.
But I have tested them on a medium sized PC (which had a i5-4440). At least simple formulas like that I have used in the tutorial are not much slower than usual.
As of now I have seen two things which can be MUCH slower: Choosing DEAO as Ambient shadow, and calculating inside renders.

Please tell if you should have any difficulties to download / read the tutorial, or if you have any questions about the content!
I have uploaded a pdf, but the original is a odf (as used by Open/Libre Office etc). Therefore I can try to transform its into another format if needed.

Also: Please feel free to share your own experiences.

If you are interested in more background on MB3D, or even the theory behind you may start at the forum's MB3D program child board , or its mandelbulb theory child board .

Further related pages:
JIT Formula Pack and Samples 1 - Basics - First part of a resource with JIT formulas, and parameters
JIT Formula Pack and Samples 2 (of 2) - Second part of a resource with JIT formulas, and parameters

Have fun, and create many unusal pictures

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Update note [2015-02-23] : A bit more on reformatting. That will be the final version for now
Update note [2015-01-09] : Have restructured the document so that it does better show the actual workflow. I hope that it makes the usage easier.
Update note [2015-01-08] : I have uploaded a slightly changed version of the pdf. No major changes; have mainly corrected errors, and reformatted the document.

Description
To all Mandelbulb3D friends.

Most probably you have heard that has announced a X-mas gift.

Since the original programmer Jesse had stopped the development there was a larger gap in development of our favorite tool - until Andreas alias thargor6 decided to step in as main developer, and until Jesse decided to move the program to open source.
Now, after several months of work Andreas has uploaded the ready made binaries of Mandelbulb3D v190 to the download page on Fractal Forums - at December-24th.

Again - Andreas & Team - Thank you very much for your work. I think it will bring really fresh life into the MB3D community.

The version step sounds small, and yes, you can work with MB3D v190 as you have worked before.

But besides the introduction of GUI theming there are a number of new major features which are listed at download page on Fractal Forums , or at Andreas' homepage entry .

I want to provide a basic tutorial of one of those new features - the just-in-time formula compiler, and the related formula editor.
It does NOT talk about triplex maths, or about theory of dynamic systems. No fear
The tutorial just describes my first experiences using those new features. It provides steps, and screenshots which should allow you to create an own formula.

Note on performance:
Please note that formulas written for the JIT compile *are* slower than the original hand made machine code formulas from Jesse, Luca, M.Benesi etc.
But I have tested them on a medium sized PC (which had a i5-4440). At least simple formulas like that I have used in the tutorial are not much slower than usual.
As of now I have seen two things which can be MUCH slower: Choosing DEAO as Ambient shadow, and calculating inside renders.

Please tell if you should have any difficulties to download / read the tutorial, or if you have any questions about the content!
I have uploaded a pdf, but the original is a odf (as used by Open/Libre Office etc). Therefore I can try to transform its into another format if needed.

Also: Please feel free to share your own experiences.

If you are interested in more background on MB3D, or even the theory behind you may start at the forum's MB3D program child board , or its mandelbulb theory child board .

Further related pages:
JIT Formula Pack and Samples 1 - Basics - First part of a resource with JIT formulas, and parameters
JIT Formula Pack and Samples 2 (of 2) - Second part of a resource with JIT formulas, and parameters

Have fun, and create many unusal pictures

--------------------
Update note [2015-02-23] : A bit more on reformatting. That will be the final version for now
Update note [2015-01-09] : Have restructured the document so that it does better show the actual workflow. I hope that it makes the usage easier.
Update note [2015-01-08] : I have uploaded a slightly changed version of the pdf. No major changes; have mainly corrected errors, and reformatted the document.