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Breeding Basics |
Breeding is a system of combining two images to form a new third third by combining structural parts of the two images together. For example, one image may be a fractal, and the other contain a mirror, the child may end up with a mirrored fractal.
1. Select Window > Breeding Pool to show and select the breeding window. 2. On the left are the possible candidates for breeding. Two are chosen at random for each child produced. 3. On the right are all the children created from the current round of breeding. Click the Breed button to generate a new round of children. 4. The Remove button removes a parent from the breeding pool. 5. The Add To Pool button adds the selected child on the right to the breeding pool on the left. 6. The Spawn New button creates a new document based on the selected child on the right. |
Note that children are often more complex than either of their parents, and so after several generations, the resulting image can be quite complex. Unfortunately, this can also slow down the rendering of the image.