Well, I must say I've taken it too seriously more than a month of work turned my "3D hack" into something almost as usable as the original program (he he ), and now, today is a somehow special day...


Couldn't resist to release it now! Get it on SF.net ---> [link]

Apart from being 3D, this version contains a couple of bugfixes, and even some new features that may appear good enough to be integrated into the main Apophysis branch.
Here's an overview of the most important features:

Adjust window now contains "3D camera" controls. You can rotate your view either by editing angle values, or just by clicking on the preview image and dragging.

Editor window still is NOT suitable for 3D editing. So we got to use a work-around here: we're going to use a special kind of variations for this (and that's why it's called "hack" )
Variations with names starting with "pre_" are applied before any other variations. Likewise, variations with names starting with "post_" are applied after anything else. Be careful about using several of them at once though, because sometimes you can not be sure in which order they will be called.

So, if we use "triangles" to transform our fractal points in X and Y axes, to transform Z value we're going to use:
pre_zscale
pre_ztranslate
pre_rotate_x
pre_rotate_y
I hope the names are quite self-explanatory...
But all this "pre_" stuff is not only useful for 3D. Add a bit of pre_blur to the bubble - and you'll get a very smooth looking sphere

Btw, most of the original variations work only in 2D, that is - if you'll try to transform a 3D point with them, it's Z-position will be lost. But you still can add 3D-ness to them, using these "ordinary" variations:
zscale
ztranslate
zcone
- they work only on Z axis, so you can combine them with any of the 2D variations.

The only old 2D variations that "became" 3D are bubble and cylinder. I suspect you understand why

Because of so many new variations were added, I decided to remove some old (useless) ones, including cosine, exponential, power, the "old" julia and etc... I hope not so many people will miss them, and we can add them as plugins anyway