CoreImage – Mathaesthetics

Double-Fractal Kaleidoscope Animation Made with MathPaint

November 30, 2020 by Christopher Corbell

Here’s a one-minute animation send two shifting fractals through and angle-changing kaleidoscope Core Image filter, made with MathPaint:

Tiled Polar Variations (23 rapidly-generated images)

October 3, 2020October 3, 2020 by Christopher Corbell

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 2020.02.28

February 28, 2020 by Christopher Corbell

For today’s post I’m showing off some the Apple Core Image effects capabilities built into MathPaint, with three Julia set fractals. By the way, MathPaint’s release is now close enough for crowdfunding – please see our MathPaint IndieGoGo campaign for details, and a video of the application in action! For each Julia set in this … Read moreFractal Friday 2020.02.28

Fractal Friday 2020.01.10

January 10, 2020 by Christopher Corbell

ICYMI, I’m currently writing an application that generates mathematical art. It’s created in Swift, for Mac OS desktop systems. All the images on this blog are created from it, including the fractals posted every Fractal Friday. This week I hooked up a full range of CoreImage effects to the app, and I’m having fun sending … Read moreFractal Friday 2020.01.10