Blog Posts

2013

• Be a Match, Save a Life 16 December

  Calling anyone who is able to do something incredible...
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• Introducing Frax 02 October

  The project I've been working on for the last two years...
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2012

• A Series of Snowflakes 06 December

  A selection of subverted seasonal snowflakes
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• L'Eclaireur 06 January

  A series of looping animations from an installation at L'Eclaireur in Paris.
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2011

• Music Box 18 December

  A journey into a Fabergé inspired world.
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• Riverside Museum 05 July

  Glasgow's fantastic new museum of transport, the project I have been working on for the past year.
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• Fractal Lab 05 March

  A WebGL fractal explorer
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• Surface Detail 16 January

  An evolving fractal landscape.
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2010

• Geometric organica 26 December

  Delicate organic structures with a geometric twist.
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• A series of subdivisions 07 November

  An experiment in fractal structures.
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• Augustus Polyp 29 July

  A swim round the Mandelbulb reef
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• Little Planets 17 June

  A Pixel Bender plugin for Photoshop, After Effects and Flash to create stereographic projections, or 'Little Planets'
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• The Pyramid 10 May

  An experiment in recursive structures.
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• The Formula 29 March

  A music video collaboration with 'The Formula'
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2009

• 3D Mandelbulb Ray Tracer 13 December

  Scripts for ray tracing Mandelbulbs, the closest thing to true 3D Mandelbrot fractals
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• 4D Quaternion Julia Set Ray Tracer 20 September

  This GPU shader renders real-time Quaternion Julia set fractals with ambient occlusion.
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• Artforms of Nature 18 July

  A fractal twist to the ever inspiring illustrations from the nineteenth century German biologist Ernst Haeckel.
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• 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.
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• Fractals and generative art resources 14 May

  An overview with links of my talk at the Apple Store in Glasgow.
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• Fractals and generative art talk 10 May

  Come along to the Apple Store in Glasgow on Thursday 14th May at 6pm to learn more.
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• Tracing a terrain 07 March

  Raytracing procedural terrains using Pixel Bender
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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.
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• Fast Mandelbrot Renderer 13 November

  This Pixel Bender filter renders the Mandelbrot fractal using your GPU for real-time performance.
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• Butterfly curves 05 November

  Continuing the theme of circular patterns this experiment explores a formula that can create butterfly like curves.
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• Guilloché Patterns 10 October

  Start designing your own bank notes with this spirograph like pattern generator.
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• Mandelbrot 02 October

  Explore the famous Mandelbrot fractal with this Flash experiment.
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• Welcome to the new site 28 September

  It's been a long time coming, but I have finally rebuilt the site!
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• Gumowski-Mira Patterns 25 September

  An interactive investigation of the marine looking patterns created by the Gumowski-Mira transformation.
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• Aliasing patterns 20 September

  An experiment in generating aliasing patterns
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• Nested semicircles 07 September

  A little experiment with nested semicircles
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• Simple Attractors 26 May

  An experiment that lets you visually explore two simple attractor equations credited to Peter de Jong and Cliff Pickover.
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• 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.
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