development
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
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
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…
fractal
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
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
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 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
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
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 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 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
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…
