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fractal Fractal Friday 2020.10.23 – three warped Julia Sets
fractal · Oct 23, 2020
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…
computer graphics Fractal Friday 2020.10.16 – Julia Set variations with 5+ colors
computer graphics · Oct 16, 2020
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…
computer graphics Fractal Friday 2020.10.09 – Julia-set contour variations
computer graphics · Oct 10, 2020
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…
computer graphics Tiled Polar Variations (23 rapidly-generated images)
computer graphics · Oct 3, 2020
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…
generative art MathPaint 1.0 will feature Image Builder Wizard for step-by-step generative graphics
generative art · Sep 29, 2020
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…
computer graphics New website, MathPaint beta, free wallpapers!
computer graphics · Aug 8, 2020
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…
fractal Fractal Friday 2020.04.17
fractal · Apr 18, 2020
Fractal Friday 2020.04.17
Here are a few new fractals created with pre-release MathPaint. These are all either standard Julia or Mandelbrot z^2 sets, with a…
computer graphics Fractal Friday 2020.03.13
computer graphics · Mar 13, 2020
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…
fractal Fractal Friday 2020.02.28
fractal · Feb 28, 2020
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…
math art
math art · Feb 27, 2020
MathPaint (Trailer #1)
fractalfriday
fractalfriday · Feb 21, 2020
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…
computer graphics
computer graphics · Feb 18, 2020
Bring the noise! MathPaint gets more algorithms, plus templates
The forthcoming MathPaint beta now has a fairly complete noise-rendering feature set. There are several algorithmic noise-generation modes – Perlin, Billow, Ridged,…