Author Archives: Andrew Caudwell

Birth of a Disco Universe

This started out as an experiment with Metaballs and ended up looking like disco colored supernova explosions and interstellar gas. I like how interesting patterns in the clouds emerge out of random behavior. To me, that’s the ideal outcome of a procedural animation. I think I might use this to generate background pictures.

Welcome to The Alpha Blenders

Hello and welcome to my blog about procedurally generated computer graphics. The title, The Alpha Blenders, refers to a key technique in computer graphics known as Alpha Blending. I expect this to be a very visual blog. I will be publishing a lot of images and videos here as I write about my own projects [...]