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MathPaint
MathPaint · Dec 18, 2020
Fractal Friday 2020.12.18 – Strange Lifeforms
This week’s fractals made with MathPaint are from a cubic Julia Set (z^3 + C) with a quadratic warp function applied (A*x^2…
MathPaint
MathPaint · Jan 10, 2020
Fractal Friday 2020.01.10
ICYMI, I’m currently writing an application that generates mathematical art. It’s created in Swift, for Mac OS desktop systems. All the images…
MathPaint
MathPaint · Jan 3, 2020
Fractal Friday 2020.01.03
The noise renderer has gotten more sophisticated in the past week, and it’s being put to work in this week’s set of…
MathPaint
MathPaint · Dec 28, 2019
Fractal Friday 2019.12.27
It’s the last Fractal Friday of the year, time for some recursive magic!  This week we’re exploring the Mandelbrot set, using two…
General
General · Dec 23, 2019
Dev notebook: an enum alternative to GKState / GKStateMachine
I worked on my first GameplayKit project earlier this year and there were things I liked about the lightweight, general state-machine model…
MathPaint
MathPaint · Dec 20, 2019
Fractal Friday 2019.12.20
The fractal renderer used to draw this week’s graphics has a new feature – rendering in ‘edge’ mode. Rather than filling the…
MathPaint
MathPaint · Dec 17, 2019
Scalar fields for gradients and other graphic patterns
The Mathaesthetics flagship app will support a number of modes of mathematical image creation. I spent most of yesterday working on and…
MathPaint
MathPaint · Dec 13, 2019
Fractal Friday 2019.12.13
It’s Friday already! This week I’ve been jamming on this application UI development, including a brand-new feature to support fractals: the color…
MathPaint
MathPaint · Dec 12, 2019
Dev notebook: Converting scale & position of circular NSSlider for degrees
The standard Cocoa control NSSlider comes in a circular variety that resembles a rotating knob with an indicator point. Among the ideal…
MathPaint
MathPaint · Dec 11, 2019
Painting with Trigonometry
I’m excited to share today’s image generated from the application under development: It’s a pretty organic background-pattern sort of texture, but it…
MathPaint
MathPaint · Dec 6, 2019
Fractal Friday 2019.12.06
The Mathaesthetics software has made some cool advances this week, and we’re celebrating with our first Fractal Friday video! These images depict…
MathPaint
MathPaint · Dec 5, 2019
Flavors of static: random distributions and noise
It’s day one of noise generation in our flagship product! There are many ways to generate visual noise; our first algorithm is…