Blog Posts

2012

• L'Eclaireur 06 January

  A series of looping animations from an installation at L'Eclaireur in Paris.
  4 CommentsFractals, Generative, Installation, Rendering

2011

• Music Box 18 December

  A journey into a Fabergé inspired world.
  4 CommentsFractals, Ray tracing, Structures

• Riverside Museum 05 July

  Glasgow's fantastic new museum of transport, the project I have been working on for the past year.
  0 CommentsCMS, Processing, Quartz Composer, Ruby on Rails, Work

• Fractal Lab 05 March

  A WebGL fractal explorer
  28 CommentsFractals, Ray tracing, Rendering

• Surface Detail 16 January

  An evolving fractal landscape.
  46 CommentsFractals, Ray tracing

2010

• Geometric organica 26 December

  Delicate organic structures with a geometric twist.
  6 CommentsFractals, Ray tracing, Structures

• A series of subdivisions 07 November

  An experiment in fractal structures.
  16 CommentsFractals, Recursive, Structures

• Augustus Polyp 29 July

  A swim round the Mandelbulb reef
  4 CommentsFractals, Generative, Ray tracing

• Little Planets 17 June

  A Pixel Bender plugin for Photoshop, After Effects and Flash to create stereographic projections, or 'Little Planets'
  14 CommentsMath, Pixel Bender

• The Pyramid 10 May

  An experiment in recursive structures.
  19 CommentsFractals, Recursive, Structures

• The Formula 29 March

  A music video collaboration with 'The Formula'
  27 CommentsFractals, Math, Ray tracing

2009

• 3D Mandelbulb Ray Tracer 13 December

  Scripts for ray tracing Mandelbulbs, the closest thing to true 3D Mandelbrot fractals
  31 CommentsFractals, Pixel Bender, Quartz Composer, Ray tracing, Rendering

• 4D Quaternion Julia Set Ray Tracer 20 September

  This GPU shader renders real-time Quaternion Julia set fractals with ambient occlusion.
  27 CommentsFractals, Pixel Bender, Quartz Composer, Rendering

• Artforms of Nature 18 July

  A fractal twist to the ever inspiring illustrations from the nineteenth century German biologist Ernst Haeckel.
  23 CommentsFractals, Illustration, Pixel Bender, Recursive

• Fractal Explorer Pixel Bender Plugin 14 July

  Two filters for Pixel Bender for generating a wide variety of fractals. A key feature enables images to be mapped into fractal space.
  23 CommentsFractals, Pixel Bender, Recursive

• Fractals and generative art resources 14 May

  An overview with links of my talk at the Apple Store in Glasgow.
  4 CommentsActionscript, Flash, Fractals, Generative, Pixel Bender, Processing, Rendering, Talks

• Fractals and generative art talk 10 May

  Come along to the Apple Store in Glasgow on Thursday 14th May at 6pm to learn more.
  3 CommentsFractals, Generative, Talks

• Tracing a terrain 07 March

  Raytracing procedural terrains using Pixel Bender
  11 CommentsPixel Bender, rendering

2008

• Escher's Droste Effect 17 November

  A Pixel Bender script to generate the recursive spiralling image created by Escher in his Print Gallery image.
  31 CommentsPatterns, Pixel Bender, Recursive

• Fast Mandelbrot Renderer 13 November

  This Pixel Bender filter renders the Mandelbrot fractal using your GPU for real-time performance.
  10 CommentsFractals, Pixel Bender, Recursive

• Butterfly curves 05 November

  Continuing the theme of circular patterns this experiment explores a formula that can create butterfly like curves.
  8 CommentsActionscript, Math, Patterns

• Guilloché Patterns 10 October

  Start designing your own bank notes with this spirograph like pattern generator.
  27 CommentsFlash, Math, Patterns

• Mandelbrot 02 October

  Explore the famous Mandelbrot fractal with this Flash experiment.
  7 CommentsActionscript, Fractals, Generative, Recursive

• Welcome to the new site 28 September

  It's been a long time coming, but I have finally rebuilt the site!
  0 CommentsCMS, Development

• Gumowski-Mira Patterns 25 September

  An interactive investigation of the marine looking patterns created by the Gumowski-Mira transformation.
  6 CommentsGenerative, Math, Recursive

• Aliasing patterns 20 September

  An experiment in generating aliasing patterns
  1 CommentActionscript, Generative, Patterns

• Nested semicircles 07 September

  A little experiment with nested semicircles
  4 CommentsActionscript, Recursive

• Simple Attractors 26 May

  An experiment that lets you visually explore two simple attractor equations credited to Peter de Jong and Cliff Pickover.
  2 CommentsActionscript, Generative, Recursive

• Harmonograph 16 April

  The Harmonograph was a 19th century curiosity for visualising the mathematics of music. This Flash experiment allows you to explore these images.
  3 CommentsFlash, Math, Processing