Apophysis 2.08beta released
A new beta version of Apophysis has been released today. You may get it from Sourceforge.
New is a Xaos function in the Transform Editor, which handles the modification of single Transform Weights against other transforms. In the colors tab of the same window we find another new feature: Transform Visibility. This one may prevent points to be plotted in this or all other transforms, means that if you check the solo box, all other transforms will have the invisible box checked. On the other hand you can hide plots from single transforms without changing their attraction/gravity to other transforms. Seems to open a whole new universe of possibilities. 
Note that these two features are not handled by flam3-render (latest release: flam3-2.7.14.1).
There is also a new native variation, known from the 3D hack by Zueuk, called pre_blur.
List of native Variations and their Variables in Apophysis 2.08 beta:
Variation 0: linear
Variation 1: sinusoidal
Variation 2: spherical
Variation 3: swirl
Variation 4: horseshoe
Variation 5: polar
Variation 6: handkerchief
Variation 7: heart
Variation 8: disc
Variation 9: spiral
Variation 10: hyperbolic
Variation 11: diamond
Variation 12: ex
Variation 13: julia
Variation 14: bent
Variation 15: waves
Variation 16: fisheye
Variation 17: popcorn
Variation 18: exponential
Variation 19: power
Variation 20: cosine
Variation 21: rings
Variation 22: fan
Variation 23: eyefish
Variation 24: bubble
Variation 25: cylinder
Variation 26: noise
Variation 27: blur
Variation 28: gaussian_blur
Variation 29: pre_blur ***new
Variation 30: radial_blur
….Variable: radial_blur_angle
Variation 31: rings2
….Variable: rings2_val
Variation 32: fan2
….Variable: fan2_x
….Variable: fan2_y
Variation 33: blob
….Variable: blob_low
….Variable: blob_high
….Variable: blob_waves
Variation 34: pdj
….Variable: pdj_a
….Variable: pdj_b
….Variable: pdj_c
….Variable: pdj_d
Variation 35: perspective
….Variable: perspective_angle
….Variable: perspective_dist
Variation 36: julian
….Variable: julian_power
….Variable: julian_dist
Variation 37: juliascope
….Variable: juliascope_power
….Variable: juliascope_dist
Variation 38: curl
….Variable: curl_c1
….Variable: curl_c2
Variation 39: rectangles
….Variable: rectangles_x
….Variable: rectangles_y
It also seems that the limitation of maximum 27 (or 30) simultaneously loaded plugins is finally removed. (Confirmed for a number of plugins respecting some coding-rules.)
