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Fractal Friday 2021.05.21 – Cubic Mandelbrot Variations
This fractal set made with MathPaint starts with a cubic Mandelbrot layer, warped by a quadratic function and blended with an underlying…
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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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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…
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Fractal Friday 2020.10.23 – three warped Julia Sets
Made with MathPaint, here are three Julia Set images warped by an additional real-valued function and with some custom color mapping. The…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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MathPaint 1.0 will feature Image Builder Wizard for step-by-step generative graphics
Generating graphics from mathematical models can seem daunting, but almost everyone loves the cool symmetry, fractals, and unexpected shapes that math can…
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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…
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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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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…
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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…