Version 42.1 1. Added option to save 3D CA steps as DXF files for importing into other 3D apps. 2. Added variations options to Gray-Scott Reaction-Diffusion mode.

Version 42.0 1. Added merge emboss processing option to AVI builds. 2. Added new splash screen and toolbar icons. 3. Added merge emboss processing option to emboss image processing. 4. Added new Complex Ginzburg-Landau Reaction-Diffusion mode. 5. Fixed bug that caused Flame scripts to render incorrectly. 6. Added new Belousov-Zhabotinsky Cellular Automaton mode. 7. Added new FitzHugh-Nagumo Reaction-Diffusion mode.

Version 41.9 1. Added pipes rendering option to 3D DLA mode. 2. Added more settings to Video Feedback mode. 3. Added more options to Coupled CA mode. 4. Added more options and fixed a few bugs in Genetic Art 2 mode. 5. Genetic Art 2 mode can now be used to make AVI zoom movies. 6. Added color wheel to palette editor. Helps create complimentary, triadic, etc color palettes. 7. Sample palette files cleaned up. Bad palettes deleted. Added 180 new color palettes based on pleasing color schemes.

Version 41.8 1. Added image warping option to AVI build. 2. Added embossing option to AVI build. 3. Mandelbrot mode now defaults to 1024 iterations and supersampling to increase default quality. 4. Added new Coupled Cellular Automata mode. 5. Added more features to Video Feedback mode.

Version 41.7 1. Fixed bug in loading LIF files that caused problems with any files not using standard 23/2 birth/survival rules. 2. Added more options to save PNG images with transparency. 3. Fixed bug that caused AVI movie effects to corrupt the colors in the resulting movie. 4. Rewrote Video Feedback mode. 5. All application excepetions are now intercepted and handled. 6. Changed Whitney Music Box default settings to a more pleasing sounding example. 7. Trial version can save parameter files and doesn't nag as often.

Version 41.6 1. OpenGL light colors can be set by a color dialog rather than having to type RGB values between 0 and 1. 2. Added new Whitney Music Box mode. 3. Newton mode now twice as fast when generating images 4. Mandelbrot mode speed increase. Twice as fast. 5. Quaternion speed increase. Nearly 3 times as fast. 6. All options dialogs fixed to display correctly under Vista. 7. Bug fixed that caused help to not display in Vista. 8. Bug fixed in Video Feedback that caused defaults to not work correctly. 9. Video Feedback mode now allows click and drag to inject image. 10. Magnetic Pendulum mode slight speed increase. 11. Wator bug fixed that caused wrap-around edges to not always work correctly. 12. Fixed bug with Feigenbaum zoom not working. 13. Fixed bug with various options forms not showing centered on screen correctly.

Version 41.5 1. Added new Genetic Art 2 mode. 2. Help file converted to CHM format. 3. Fixed bug that caused triple and quadrule pendulums to ignore animation delay settings.

Version 41.4 1. Added Cancel button to deep zoom dialog. 2. Video Feedback searches can now be stopped without having to end task the program. 3. Fixed bug that caused settings to never be saved if chaos.ini file did not exist. 4. Arrow keys can now be used to scroll through file list in Mandelbrot load dialog. 5. Added setting for AVI build dialog to "add every nth frame" to skip frames when building AVI movies if required. 6. Fixed bug that caused Reaction Diffusion dialog to not be centered on the screen. 7. Added option to create AVI frames from the Attractor mode. 8. Attractor mode is more responsive when stopping an image being generated. 9. Clicking and dragging mouse now injects flow into Fluid simulations.

Version 41.3 1. Added new Newton Fractal mode. 2. Added new Fluid Simulation mode. 3. Added wrap edges option for 2D Gravity. 4. Added new Gravity Set mode. 5. Improved Video Feedback mode with more options and a few minor bug fixes.

Version 41.2 1. Fixed memory leak with Archean CA mode. 2. Attractor mode settings can now be saved. 3. Fixed bug that caused Mandelbrot mode to hang if saving to large sized BMP files. 4. Added new Self Replicating Loops mode. 5. Pendulum mode now supports triple and quadruple pendulum simulations. 6. Video feedback mode now supports initial BMP images from any directory. 7. Saved BMP Mandelbrots now exactly matches on screen display. 8. Fixed bug that caused saved BMP Mandelbrots to show with incorrect colors. 9. Added option to save and load Complex mode fractals. 10. New sepia tone image processing option. 11. New emboss image processing option. 12. Visions Of Chaos now defaults to "idle" priority so other applications do not respond slowly when Visions Of Chaos is doing some serious processing. 13. DLA mode now has probability setting for when floating particles stick. 14. Mandelbrot mode now has deep zoom capabilities.

Version 41.1 1. Improved Video Feedback mode. 2. Fixed bug that caused Genetic Music MIDI saved files to play incorrectly. 3. Fixed bug that caused Julia mode scripts to save incorrectly. 4. All dialog windows now "stay on top" of other windows. 5. Fixed bug that caused flame scripts using new types to not load correctly. 6. Added % to 3D gravity mode for feedback during simulations of large number of objects.

Version 41.0 1. Added 34 new blend modes for when combinging Mandelbrot and Julia set images and movies. 2. Added new Handkerchief, Heart, Disc, Spiral, Hyperbolic, Diamond, Ex and Julia transformation types to Flame mode. 3. Added new Liquid Crystal Cellular Automata mode. 4. Added option to save Termite simulation steps as AVI frames. 5. Fixed bug that caused Lyapunov mode zoom out to fail. 6. Changed IFS and Flame random probability code to be more "fair" when assigning probabilites. 7. Fixed bug that caused Lyapunov scripts to hang when generating unless a Lyapunov fractal had been created. 8. Smoother 3D flyover code. 9. Escape Tween options enhanced to support zoom coordinates. 10. Added new Ant Simulation mode. 11. Added new Video Feedback Simulation mode. 12. Fixed bug that caused LIF files to load incorrectly. 13. Fixed bug that caused Tiled CA mode to hang if the tile count was larger than 10,000. 14. Added option to save Automatic Music to midi files. 15. Added option to save Genetic Music to midi files.

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