Articles
Articles about algorithmic art and the techniques behind it.
Tutorial
3Three studies in iteration and color
Explore the Mandelbrot set, Julia sets and color-space coordinates through interactive examples with linked explanations.
Building an Interactive Fractal Explorer
Technical deep-dive into implementing a performant Mandelbrot/Julia set explorer with WebGL and progressive rendering.
Dominant Color Extraction in Practice
How do apps like Spotify determine a background color from an album cover? A practical guide to extracting the most meaningful color from any image.
Deep Dive
5How Convolution Kernels Became Art
From image processing utility to creative medium — how applying matrices to noise fields unlocked a new visual language.
Dithering: Creating Illusions with Mathematics
When you have only a handful of colors, clever pixel placement can trick the eye into seeing thousands. A deep dive into error-diffusion dithering and the algorithms behind the illusion.
Color Quantization: From Millions to Dozens of Colors
How do you reduce 16.7 million colors to 16 without losing the soul of an image? A deep dive into Median Cut, K-Means, and the color-space geometry that makes it all work.
Perceptual Color Spaces: CIELAB and Delta E
Where Euclidean RGB distance fails because it ignores human biology, CIELAB succeeds. How the ΔE formula measures color differences in a way that feels human.
The Mystery of Gamma Correction
A common mistake when calculating RGB distance is ignoring gamma. Why you must linearize RGB values before doing math, and what goes wrong when you don't.
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