yet another source of inspiration…
Somewhere between Advent candles and Christmas cookies, a strange phenomenon hit our household: pixel fever. The kids wished for pixel art from pixeln.ch for Christmas — not plush toys, not consoles, but gloriously rigid grids of colored squares. At that moment, it became clear: this was no phase. This was discrete geometry taking over family… Read more A Pixelated Christmas Gift
It all started on a rainy afternoon when my kids asked a very dangerous question:“Dad… can’t we turn our own pictures into pixel art?” That question triggered what every developer-parent knows too well — a new side project was inevitable. A Small App with a Big Creative Goal So I built a small pixel image… Read more A Geek’s Love Letter to Pixels
I’ve always been intrigued by the Mandelbrot set and the nice images one can render with just that simple recursive formula z=z2 + c. Back in the eighties I rendered images in 320×200 pixels on my Commodore 64, then on my Amiga 500, later on a Macintosh and finally on my subsequent PCs. Where I… Read more Fun with Mandelbrot