Pixel Bender Blog Posts

2010

Little Planets 17 June

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

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
Tracing a terrain 07 March

Raytracing procedural terrains using Pixel Bender
11 CommentsPixel Bender, rendering

Escher's Droste Effect 17 November

A Pixel Bender script to generate the recursive spiralling image created by Escher in his Print Gallery image.
32 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