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# Plasma

## Overview

The Plasma Renderer plugin is a natural cloud generator. The results of a plasma render, can be both pleasing, and useful for all digital artists. The cloud is rendered using two configurable settings.

## Plasma Cloud Options

The first setting, Random Seed, gives control over the apparent randomness of the cloud. If the Time button is clicked, the random seed is generated using the system time as the base for the randomization algorithm. This method yeilds particularly good results, and is the preferred way of generating random clouds. The Number Entry box can be utilized to reapply a particular random seed to the cloud.

The second setting, Turbulence, allows control of the aggresiveness of the cloud. A lower setting renders a softer, more pastel like cloud, where as a higher Turbulence setting ensures a more detailed, and aggresive cloud structure.

Clicking OK, will render the cloud destructively into the current layer. This will erase the layer data. Note that the cloud is computed as a square, thus rendering a plasma cloud onto a non-square layer will stretch the cloud.

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