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MathPaint 1.0 will feature Image Builder Wizard for step-by-step generative graphics

screen shot of image builder wizard in MathPaint

Generating graphics from mathematical models can seem daunting, but almost everyone loves the cool symmetry, fractals, and unexpected shapes that math can create.

MathPaint, the flagship generative graphics app from Mathaesthetics, will make it simple to create amazing mathematical images with an innovative Image Builder Wizard interface. With a step-by-step creative activity using a subset of the full MathPaint options anyone can generate amazing images on their first launch of MathPaint, with virtually no learning curve.The Image Builder Wizard lets you get familiar with all of the major areas of MathPaint – plots, geometry, fractals, noise, image effects – so that transitioning to the more powerful document interface will be easier.

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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 result is that these pages are now much better for viewing on a mobile device.

The new website also has a better back-end architecture to support software services and downloads, and to grow as a hub for our virtual community.

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Fractal Friday 2020.02.28

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 2020.01.31

For this week’s post I’m showing off more of the rendering and layer-compositing options that are part of MathPaint. I’m using the same fractal settings for all of this week’s images – a Mandelbrot set with breakout value at 10.0, max iterations set to 200, and viewed at the (approximate) ranges [-1.432, -1.345] on the … Read moreFractal Friday 2020.01.31

Fractal Friday 2020.01.24

This week I’ve been busy working on the MathPaint architecture so didn’t develop any obvious fractal rendering features… Though I did succeed in getting some optimizations in to speed things up, and the fractal renderer is now fully concurrent (using Cocoa OperationQueue and Operation objects.) This week I chose to explore another of my favorite … Read moreFractal Friday 2020.01.24

Fractal Friday 2020.01.17

This week’s images again come from some experiments with new features for MathPaint, the flagship software app I’m working on. Previously I posted some experiments with edge rendering in fractal geometry, where only the boundary between levels of output are drawn. It shows the boundary between iteration levels but does not indicate the level itself … Read moreFractal Friday 2020.01.17

Hello World, from MathPaint! (Preview)

If you’ve been following Mathaesthetics posts you’ve seen a variety of images shared – different types of generated art from fractals to repeated 2D plots to vector fields and scalar fields and more. All images on this blog are created by our flagship software product, which has been in development since November 2019. Today for … Read moreHello World, from MathPaint! (Preview)

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 features of the Mathaesthetics prototype software: deep color mapping, and a new helpful zoom feature. Here’s where we start: In this image, there’s a color mapping with 10 different colors at various levels … Read moreFractal Friday 2019.12.27