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Tiled Polar Variations (23 rapidly-generated images)

Tonight I tested out both the new MathPaint Image Builder Wizard and the Variations window to quickly generate these images. The underlying model is a polar graph with a zoom-repeater applied and a CoreImage twelvefold-tiling feature. The first image was really easy to create playing with the Image Builder – I’m very excited to get it out with the next beta! The variations are created instantly, 8 at a time, in the Variations window – I found about 1 or 2 of each auto-generated batch aesthetically appealing. (I am expecting some day to hook up some machine learning to this feature so you can teach MathPaint about your aesthetic preferences – but for now it’s just cleverly randomized).

Here are all 23 generated images – enjoy!

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Fractal Friday 2020.02.21

I started this week’s Fractal Friday exploration by trying out higher-iteration-cutoff Mandelbrot sets.  Here are a few results with max iterations set to 1000, and higher breakout values than my usual setting of 10.0 – more detail definitely appears, especially in the boundary of the breakout value which becomes much more frond-like. The first one … Read moreFractal Friday 2020.02.21

Bring the noise! MathPaint gets more algorithms, plus templates

The forthcoming MathPaint beta now has a fairly complete noise-rendering feature set. There are several algorithmic noise-generation modes – Perlin, Billow, Ridged, and Voronoi – as well as MathPaint’s own random-shape drawing mode. In addition to the feature, I’m starting to build the collection of templates that will ship with the app as starting points … Read moreBring the noise! MathPaint gets more algorithms, plus templates