The Journal

Art, decks, and notes from the workbench.

fractal
fractal · Dec 13, 2019
Fractal Friday 2019.12.13
It’s Friday already! This week I’ve been jamming on this application UI development, including a brand-new feature to support fractals: the color…
graphics
graphics · Dec 12, 2019
Dev notebook: Converting scale & position of circular NSSlider for degrees
The standard Cocoa control NSSlider comes in a circular variety that resembles a rotating knob with an indicator point. Among the ideal…
mathart
mathart · Dec 11, 2019
Painting with Trigonometry
I’m excited to share today’s image generated from the application under development: It’s a pretty organic background-pattern sort of texture, but it…
fractal
fractal · Dec 6, 2019
Fractal Friday 2019.12.06
The Mathaesthetics software has made some cool advances this week, and we’re celebrating with our first Fractal Friday video! These images depict…
graphics
graphics · Dec 5, 2019
Flavors of static: random distributions and noise
It’s day one of noise generation in our flagship product! There are many ways to generate visual noise; our first algorithm is…
cocoa
cocoa · Dec 1, 2019
Dev notebook: brush-like drawing in Swift, without CGPattern
I’m spending a lot of time in Cocoa drawing and Core Graphics lately, working in Swift. The API around the Core Graphics…
fractal
fractal · Nov 29, 2019
Fractal Friday! 2019.11.29
It’s Fractal Friday! As always you can click the images below to see them full-size. This week’s fractal images highlight two new…
fractal
fractal · Nov 22, 2019
Fractal Friday! 2019.11.22
This week’s images are mostly from the same region, x-axis: (-1.308, 0.567), y-axis (-0.542, 1.351). I started with the Douady rabbit –…
mathart
mathart · Nov 20, 2019
Strawberry vector fields forever
My new vector field renderer prototype is chugging along, and combined with hooking up .png output to the app I was able…
app
app · Nov 17, 2019
Free memory game! Memsight 1.0 now available for iPhone, iPad
Our first free iPhone/iPad game is now available on the app store! Challenge your memory with a fun, addictive game. Free to…
fractal
fractal · Nov 15, 2019
Fractal Friday! 2019.11.15
This week I’m beginning a new series of postings, to celebrate the implementation of a fractal renderer in our flagship product –…
mathart
mathart · Nov 12, 2019
Polar graph rendering
More images from our flagship product prototype… polar graph rendering is in! Here are a few results of prototype output. These examples…