about quadrium2
quadrium is an application that allows you to create a wide variety of abstract images, textures, and animations. It combines a wide variety of mathematic techniques (including fractals) with an interface designed to let you easily explore the vast realm of possible images, allowing you to literally "grow" you image. You don't need an advanced degree in math to be able to create rich and fascinating images, suitable for websites, presentation backgrounds, cards, CD covers, brochures, or fine art prints. You can even create animations, bringing your creations to life.
Features:
- Compose your images by combining over 300 different nodes
- Explore 30 different basic types of fractals, including the ability to specify your own formula, with over 40 different styles of coloring, 30 trap shapes, and dozens of variations (such as different bailout shapes, trap coloring techniques, etc... - making this one of the most powerful Macintosh fractal programs available)
- Over 70 different warping/transformations to twist, fold, distort, mirror, and apply other effects easily to your image
- Diverse nodes such as complex weaving patterns, a dozen variations of Truchet patterns, and Escher style hyperbolic tessellation.
- Random noise and turbulence nodes to simulate natural phenomena, such as clouds, landscape, and fire.
- Full featured gradient editor
- Mutate your image to explore countless variations
- "Breed" your images together to combine their features creating a new images.
- Fine tune your images by explicitly adjusting their various settings, or use the "tweener" to adjust large numbers of settings all at once
- Animate your creations, generating QuickTime movies
- Render high resolution versions of your creations (up to 600 dpi with 8:1 anti-aliasing)
- Share your images locally via Bonjour, or globally via your .Mac account
- Create image workflows by post-processing your images with AppleScript or Automator (such as automatically adding to an iPhoto gallery, for example).
- Extensive documentation, including an 80 page tutorial (nearly 300 pages of PDF documentation), and online help.
- Interface driven via "drag & drop", with unlimited undo and live feedback.
- Accelerated to take advantage of AltiVec and SSE (accelerating images such as fractals by up to a factor of 4)
New features in 2.2:
- "Nesting" nodes - nodes that include entire trees to add amazing new capabilities, including layers
- Programmable nodes - quadriumScript allows you to write your own nodes, exploring new textures, warpers, fractals, etc... (quadriumScript is compiled to native code for maximum speed)
- Savable nodes - save your nested or programmed nodes to allow you to easily reuse them in other images (or just save your favorite presets on nodes)
- UI enhancements, such as toolbars
- And of course, bug fixes, new nodes (30+)
New features in 2.3:
- New gradient editor with more capabilities (including the ability to merge multiple gradients via drag and drop)
- Leopard friendly UI enhancements
- Bug fixes