Mystica creates unique art for exceptional graphical needs.
It comes with an own effect section, HTML gallery generator, movie generator, and a built-in 3D Engine that allows you to explore and shoot your images and movies in 3D. You can also post-process and explore images of any source.

Mystica’s user interface is different from usual Windows programs. Rather than hiding functionality behind pull down menus, all controls are directly accessible to allow for fast explorative results.

You might want to start designing an image in this "Simple Design" screen. It guides you through main parameters and coloring by numbers.
The virtual window in which the image is shown can be panned and zoomed by mouse.

An intelligent random button provides exceptional images which can be refined further on; there is no need to set lots of image parameters.

At any time you can switch to the "Expert Design" screen which offers more controls. Snapshots, unlimited undo and redo levels as well as extendable presets for forms and colors help in finding unique images.

A Chaos slider allows to continally add chaotic structures, a Sequence button presents variations while preserving the image character. Coloring is done in layers with adjustable transparency.

A very interesting feature is the movie generation. Take any of your created images and define a belonging second image. All movie frames are automatically generated as a transition from the two images.
Movies can be exported in all video formats (divx, mpeg4 etc). Mystica comes with an integrated movie player that allows to copy individual video frames as images. Movies can be editied and extended even after rendering, hence allowing for complex creations.

Once an image or movie is defined, it is moved to the "Render Queue". The queue takes care of rendering in selectable sizes of up to 8000x6000 pixels. Rendering is done by a low priority thread in background until all images are ready. Once an image or movie is rendered, it is moved to the Gallery.

The Gallery contains all images and movies that have been rendered. All settings are still available and can be edited by going back to the design or movie screens.

Assets can be opened, copied, and exported in all major graphic formats. The ".mys" format allows saving and reloading the image or movie together with all settings.

An HTML gallery generator creates galleries and optionally adds the ".mys" file for later reloading.

Digital effects enhance your art in a variety of ways. Different filters of adjustable kernel size, layers and a special 3D lighting section are at hand.

Any image source can be pasted as effect or layer input; similarly, the output can be looped back to input or assigned to any layer.

Both the original and final image are saved with all settings for later editing. Effects can be assigned to each movie frame.

The true power of Mystica is the third dimension. Your images are recomputed into a height field which can be explored interactively by means of helicopter, virtual camera, off-road Jeep or a walking human.

Take snapshots from any position and experience your virtual world in 3D, see below.


Features

Overview

generates unique images with a few mouse clicks
adds special effects to images (e.g. 3D lighting)
lets you fly, drive, or walk through your image in 3D
creates movies from two image definitions and allows to save them in any compressed video format
exports images in all major graphics formats
HTML gallery generator for images and movies included
constantly improved since 1998

Image Generation

compose image out of any 2*6 base algorithm mixture
move, zoom, rotate the viewport
move and select region of interest by mouse
intelligent random functions for finding nice initial image parameters
store and manage presets for image content and coloring
continuesly add chaotic structures
arbitrary sophisticated coloring
continuos linear to exponential color fading
tool tips, online and offline help
save image with all parameter settings for later editing or rendering
export image as bitmap in all major graphics formats
render image in various sizes from web graphics to digital art
renders in background, intelligent render queue with own image manager
unlimited undo levels
snapshot functions for both 2D and 3D content
editable previews for both image design and coloring
continuos iteration depth
control elements for changing subtle design while preserving main image characteristics
own ".mys" image format to restore all image parameters
HTML gallery generator to help organize your creations

Effect Section

uses Mystica images as well as clipboard images as input
Filter section: soften, sharpen, edge enhancement, erode, dilate, special filters, variable kernel size, blend with input
3D Lighting section: light position, lilght height, light color, shadow color, specularity, blend result with input
Layer section: input can be Mystica image or clipboard content, endless layering, variable magnification and brightness, layer mode: add, sub, and, or, xor, blend, blend result with input
Color section: brightness, contrast, gamma
Thread managed rendering and previewing

3D Engine

builds 3D world from 2D image, input either Mystica images or arbitrary images through clipboard
lets you fly, drive and walk by different objects through your world: helicopter, jeep, virtual camera or human
realistic flight, drive, and walk physics with auto pilots
adaptive ground tesselation to allow for huge worlds
flexible particle engine
precise collision detection for both objects and world
animated sky and dust layer
shaded diffuse and specular lighting
take infinitely viewing distancer screenshots from any position
various surface materials, ranging from solid colored surfaces to reflecting transluent glass
zoomable map that follows object position
adjustable screen resolution and color depth
scales to user system capabilities
realtime dynamic shadows
3D sound
high rendering speed, independent of world size
technical design and documentation online
constant frame rates through dynamic viewing distance adaptation
options menu lets you balance between fps and viewing distance
source code available for your projects