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    <a-keyword>Fractal Flames Transform Gradient Color</a-keyword>
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          <para styleclass="Normal"><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">Contrary to common belief, coloring fractal flame does not work like in graphic applications like GIMP or Photoshop. It is rather the selection or creation of a color map and the definition of two parameters for each transform: color position and color speed.</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Normal"><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">The color position is simply explained: take the amount of colors in the color map (256 in current Apophysis releases) and multiply it with the color position. (between zero and one) The result is the color index where you can find the actual color in the color map. This color is the base color of the transform. It is indicated at the color tab of the </text><link displaytype="text" defaultstyle="true" type="topiclink" href="Editor_window" styleclass="Normal" translate="true">editor window</link><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true"> and updates when you select a color.</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Normal"><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">The color speed however is difficult to explain and understand. The easiest way is to imagine it as an index for the color variation on a shape generated by the corresponding transform and a value indicating how much other transforms can dictate a color. There are three key values between which the effects are blended:</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Normal"><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">-1</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Normal"><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">The transform does not inherit any color given by other transforms and shows no variation of colors. The entire shape has exactly the color defined by the color position.</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Normal"><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true"> 0</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Normal"><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">The transform shape color differs from the color defined by the color position. The difference is dependend from the color speed of other transforms.</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Normal"><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true"> 1</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Normal"><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">The transform does not have any influence on its shapes color. All colors are inherited from other transforms.</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Normal"><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">Apophysis currently features 700 built-in color maps and offers the import of image files to generate new color maps as well as loading gradients from UltraFractal. You can also adjust loaded gradients in the </text><link displaytype="text" defaultstyle="true" type="topiclink" href="Adjustment" styleclass="Normal" translate="true">adjustment window</link><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">. </text></para>
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