Last Friday, I got my haul from the print shop!
I had my mathematical artwork Frozen Harmonics printed on canvas, and I absolutely like the result!
My “product photography” has room for improvement, but the colors and the black background really look way more vibrant / saturated than I expected. The black looks perhaps even “blacker” than on my metal prints.
Here is a quick unedited (not color-corrected etc.) photo of the print! I’ve taken the photos taken in natural indoor light about 1-2 meters from a window, but not in direct sunlight.
Here is the digital original:
Created with custom JavaScript code using the framework three.js. No AI involved. Contour lines on nested surfaces of spherical harmonic functions – the building blocks of orbitals in quantum mechanics – but this is a crazy combination of such functions.
Size of the print: 30cm x 30cm | 12in x 12in
Image: 5000×5000 pixels – 20MB as a PNG, 40MB as a JPG.
I also like how the canvas wraps around the frame, but I need to take that into account for future creations. This image was one of the few that had enough “margin suitable for wrapping”.
In contrast to my Sparse Spaceport series, the lines here are really only lines – as thin as possible in the foreground as well as in the background. I have a beefy computer but it could not handle the rendering of this many “tubes”.
I had not considered canvas before as I figured the structure of the canvas would interfere with these lines in a non-optimal way. Now I feel it looks smooth and adds a bit of interesting texture – just as the roughness of matt metal prints does.
I would be interested in your experience with printing your digital art: Do you also like to print it? Does the tangible item also makes such a difference?
I had started creating art digitally – math art with code and drawing with digital pens – because you only need a computer you can take with you. No paint, no mess, not much space needed.
To my surprise, it turned out that I love the messy and no-undo-button process of creating traditional art. But I also I crave seeing the digital art as a physical object in the wild. Even though I know that paper or canvas will not glow in a way the natural habitat of digital art does – the screen.
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Related:
Page for the series Spherical Harmonics
First post on Frozen Harmonics Floating in Deep Space – with more background on math and physics
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