The Journal

Art, decks, and notes from the workbench.

fractal
fractal · Feb 14, 2020
Fractal Friday 2020.02.14
Here are some extended Julia Set (z^7) floral fractals for Fractal Friday, Valentine’s Day edition – share them with your sweetheart! This…
computer graphics
computer graphics · Feb 7, 2020
Fractal Friday 2020.02.07
This week I’m sharing the results of a cool new feature in MathPaint: fractals warped by real-valued functions. The application now supports…
computer graphics
computer graphics · Jan 31, 2020
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…
computer graphics
computer graphics · Jan 25, 2020
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…
computer graphics
computer graphics · Jan 17, 2020
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…
computer graphics
computer graphics · Jan 15, 2020
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…
computer graphics
computer graphics · 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…
computer graphics
computer graphics · 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…
computer graphics
computer graphics · 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…
development
development · 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…
computer graphics
computer graphics · 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…
computer graphics
computer graphics · 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…