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 fractals, the 3rd-degree Julia Sets (same as regular Julia sets but taking z^3 instead of z^2.) I also decided to keep things fairly consistent in terms of color this week, using linear gradient mappings between three colors for each image. I hope you enjoy the results!
Next week I expect to get a little more experimental, particularly since the performance improvements will all be done so I will be able to visit unexplored areas more quickly. Until then, you can follow Mathaesthetics on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest.