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Palettes in ChaosPro
In the early days of fractals computers were only able to create black and white images. Thus fractals were quite boring from an artists point of view:
The images were fascinating, because they seemed to have an infinite amount of detail. But computers needed days, or even weeks just to calculate a single image in black and white. |
But then as computers became more powerful and had better graphics capabilities, they became able to calculate fractals in colour.
Nowadays the colors assigned to a fractal play a very important role in making a fractal beautiful. One of the key features of modern fractal generators is to give the user as much control over the colors used to draw the fractal as possible. A fractal can be boring if the colors are not well chosen. Colors can enhance the details and they can emphasize structures which otherwise would be too weak to get noticed. |
In ChaosPro you use palettes to color a fractal: A palette is a set of colors which are used by the fractal and by adjusting the palette you change the colors. Each fractal has its own palette.
In ChaosPro a palette can consist of up to about 250 different colors (normally fewer), which then are interpolated and so form a "path", the so called color gradient:
The sum of all colors is called the "color space". It is a three dimensional object, normally a cube as seen at the left side (at least if the RGB color model is used).
If you select several points anywhere inside that cube and then draw a line through your points. This is what happens in ChaosPro: You define some colors, and ChaosPro uses your colors and interpolates them to form a smooth range of colors.