I’m spending a lot of time in Cocoa drawing and Core Graphics lately, working in Swift. The API around the Core Graphics CGPattern object in Swift is a little challenging – it requires C callbacks and unsafe pointers for basic pattern-creation and drawing functionality. It also doesn’t work exactly as I’d like it to; I … Read moreDev notebook: brush-like drawing in Swift, without CGPattern
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 features added to the application I’m developing: color cycles, and Nth-degree fractal expressions. A color cycle is an an array of colors used to render the fractal pixels. The renderer cycles through them … Read moreFractal Friday! 2019.11.29
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 – setting C to -0.123 + 0.745i, with max iterations for these renderings set to 32 and the escape radius set to 1000.0. Each of the following is produced by an adjustment to C … Read moreFractal Friday! 2019.11.22
My new vector field renderer prototype is chugging along, and combined with hooking up .png output to the app I was able to make a couple of little animations with it. The vector function is a combination of trig and exponentiation (mixing up x and y to keep things interesting across the plane). These animated … Read moreStrawberry vector fields forever
Our first free iPhone/iPad game is now available on the app store! Challenge your memory with a fun, addictive game. Free to play with ads, or just $0.99 to remove ads and unlock higher levels! You can read more about Memsight here, or just go straight to the App Store!
This week I’m beginning a new series of postings, to celebrate the implementation of a fractal renderer in our flagship product – Fractal Friday! Click on each image to see it full size. These are window captures at screen resolution; our final product will also support higher resolutions and larger sizes. This first collection was … Read moreFractal Friday! 2019.11.15
More images from our flagship product prototype… polar graph rendering is in! Here are a few results of prototype output. These examples all use the zoom iterator to re-draw the graph multiple times, and I’ve also now hooked up color iterators used to render the plot lines. This one iterates the color’s brightness from dark … Read morePolar graph rendering
Here are some screen captures (also on our Instagram and Facebook feeds) from the flagship work-in-progress. Today I was working on the idea of an iterator object which is an abstraction of repeated drawing with some incremental parameter change. The prototype has two iterator objects applied – one applies a gradual zoom to the target … Read morePrototype images – fun with iterator objects
Mathaesthetics is the name of a new venture at the intersection of technology and creativity. The Mathaesthetics product development vision centers on two unique and original desktop applications, one for visual arts and one for music and audio production. Previews and screenshots will be forthcoming in early 2020. While these major flagship products are in … Read moreThis venture
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