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    <a-keyword>Fractal Flames Transform Variation</a-keyword>
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          <para styleclass="Normal"><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">Variations in Apophysis are essential for the vast amount of different types of fractal flames. There are many variations built into Apophysis and even more available as plugins. They define the nature and the look of the shape which is generated by a transform.</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Normal"><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">A variation is a mathematical function which can a assigned to </text><link displaytype="text" defaultstyle="true" type="topiclink" href="Transforms" styleclass="Normal" translate="true">transforms</link><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">. Assigning multiple variations to a transform combines them by using the sum of all assigned variations. A useful extension to variations are variables. Variables can provide detailed control about the variations functionality in addition to changing the transformation triangle positions.</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Normal"><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">Some built-in variations have specific prefixes which are important for the order of execution. Variations prefixed with &quot;pre_&quot; are applied before any other calculation is made, those prefixed with &quot;post_&quot; are applied after all calculations are done. Popular examples of this kind of variations are &quot;pre_blur&quot; and the &quot;post_rotate&quot; variations. </text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Normal"><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">You can find a catalog of common variations and corresponding example images </text><link displaytype="text" defaultstyle="true" type="weblink" href="http://www.flam3.com/flame_draves.pdf" target="_blank" styleclass="Normal" translate="true">here</link><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">. If you want to learn how a certain plugin variation works or looks, check the provided Readme-file or the description provided by the author.</text></para>
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