More on Ultrafractal 5

I still haven't spent enough time on it, but every time that I do use it I like it more and more.

I think that the class doohickeys and image import capabilities sort of distract from the powerful new features of global modifications of common parameters in multiple layers and layer grouping.

For example, the bird in this image consists of three layers. I had to play around with the Julia seeds and trap location parameters to get the birds located in a decent location and orientation. The old way would have been to change a parameter in one layer and then copy and paste into the other two. That's a PITA. The new way is to select multiple layers with a control-click and modify the parameter with the explore window. Only one layer appears in the explore window, but the common parameters in the other selected layers are changed along with it. That's more efficient.

I had to remove some birds around edges. To do that I like to use layer masking. The old way would have required 3 identical layer masks applied to each layer. The new way is to group the 3 layers together and then apply a single mask to the group.

UF 5 is good stuff. Hopefully I'll be able to do more with it when I don't have so many other priorities.