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computer graphics Fractal Friday 2020.12.11 – MathPaint Variations
computer graphics · Dec 12, 2020
Fractal Friday 2020.12.11 – MathPaint Variations
This week’s post demonstrates the generative power of the Variations feature in MathPaint. Starting with a single document, the Variations window generates…
computer graphics Fractal Friday 2020.12.04 – reflections and symmetries
computer graphics · Dec 4, 2020
Fractal Friday 2020.12.04 – reflections and symmetries
Today’s fractals are manipulated with reflection or other symmetric effects. The first two use CoreImage filters to reflect parts of the image.…
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computer graphics · Nov 30, 2020
Double-Fractal Kaleidoscope Animation Made with MathPaint
Here’s a one-minute animation send two shifting fractals through and angle-changing kaleidoscope Core Image filter, made with MathPaint:
computer graphics Fractal Friday 2020.11.26: free mobile wallpapers!
computer graphics · Nov 27, 2020
Fractal Friday 2020.11.26: free mobile wallpapers!
This Fractal Friday is the first since the official release of MathPaint 1.0 on the Mac App Store! The fractals here were…
computer graphics MathPaint public beta drops this week! + some fractal wallpapers
computer graphics · Oct 30, 2020
MathPaint public beta drops this week! + some fractal wallpapers
MathPaint is a new generative graphics app for Mac. With MathPaint you can create amazing art using and mixing different models, from…
computer graphics Fractal Friday 2020.10.16 – Julia Set variations with 5+ colors
computer graphics · Oct 16, 2020
Fractal Friday 2020.10.16 – Julia Set variations with 5+ colors
Images made with MathPaint, using the Variations feature to generate different possibilities. I made an improvement this week – the variations random-selection…
computer graphics Fractal Friday 2020.10.09 – Julia-set contour variations
computer graphics · Oct 10, 2020
Fractal Friday 2020.10.09 – Julia-set contour variations
Fractal Friday is back! With the public beta of MathPaint very close, I’ll be sharing more art created in testing. This week’s…
computer graphics Tiled Polar Variations (23 rapidly-generated images)
computer graphics · Oct 3, 2020
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…
computer graphics New website, MathPaint beta, free wallpapers!
computer graphics · Aug 8, 2020
New website, MathPaint beta, free wallpapers!
Today I’m happy to announce the launch of a new Mathaesthetics website. We’ve migrated away from the original blogger website and one…
computer graphics Fractal Friday 2020.03.13
computer graphics · Mar 13, 2020
Fractal Friday 2020.03.13
* UPDATE * we have 2 weeks to go on our IndieGogo campaign for MathPaint! Please support the release of this great…
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computer graphics · Feb 18, 2020
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,…
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computer graphics · Feb 7, 2020
Fractal Friday 2020.02.07
This week I’m sharing the results of a cool new feature in MathPaint: fractals warped by real-valued functions. The application now supports…