What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined! Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were like a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent? –Richard Feynman
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Timid Violet Ripples Morphing into Distorted Waves of Red
I am finding poetry again – Constructing the Labyrinth from Which I Plan to Escape! Again, my visual art should give me the title for the poem! The title shall also be the seed I feed to Google. These artworks are from the era when I did not name them. This is just number 2…
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A Ribbon in the Dark
Found Poetry[*] and physics-inspired digital art[**] by elkement. No AI involved. A Ribbon in the Dark Unblocked, this light producesemergency guidance you think this block is an errorwhich we keep on stock when it comes into contactit lasts many years Add or subtract the relative darknessOutside-wound and inside-wound will switch Ribbon unwindingcritically important to the…
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Going Analog
I enjoy creating digital art with code, art based on physics and math. It lets me combine just anything I had ever been doing: Science, engineering, and code. However, I must not – and I do not want to – forget what inspired me to use code creatively: It was analog drawings. I was reading…
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Why Art?
… or: Blogging like its 2012! This website has been (one of) my virtual playground(s). Every time I figured it has found its purpose, I felt the urge to change something yet again. However, the dedication to art seems to be more stable. I felt confident about adding (yet another) domain, and I am happy…
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Pushing Forward Poetry: You Feel What Tangent Vectors Do!
On this blog, I had often been chewing on a piece of mathematical physics, saying the same thing over and over again, with math, without math, in different ways, deriving A from B and back. Re-developing well-known science, making it mine. Everybody remembers the spheres in trillions of dimensions, right? I am not sure who…
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Diffracted Metropolis (Reversed)
Starting a New Year of blogging, with a combination of physics-inspired art and found poetry! ~ I am trying to reduce my diffraction art to the bare essence: Plain dots. I am celebrating the beauty of diffraction and natural spectral colors, as well as the beauty of the undulating lines that represent the mathematical functions…
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Naming Artworks with Help from Bots: From Celestial Arachnid to Ringscape Skyline
In the old days, my digital artworks were numbered:Reality and Imagination #0 to #12. Then I started Atoll of Diffraction and immediately christened each artwork, giving it a title like Peek through the Peaks. It added another interesting step to the creative process! So, I needed to make Reality and Imagination complete as well! After…
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I am Still Not Connecting the Dots! In a Negative Way!
Welcome again to my dot matrix dreamscape! Once upon a time I was debugging the code behind my creations. To spare the cycles of my hardworking graphics processor, I did not draw my diffraction curves as curves. I did not connect the dots! To my surprise, I liked the result! The point (pun intended) of…
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Not Connecting the Dots: Starting a New Series of Diffraction Art
As a beginner physics student, I once entered the physics lab in a thrill of anticipation. I was about to reproduce defining experiments in physics, week after week. The very first assignment was about … diffraction patterns! In a tiny, dimmed room I set up a laser or a Sodium-vapor lamp, diffraction gratings, and projection…
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Found Poetry from nanoGPT’s Sampling of elkemental Text
Will the internet end in the implosion of all that self-referential mess? Will AI generate text from AI-generated text from AI-generated text? Let me be part of that! I used to create Found Poetry from my own articles (and my own poems), but I better make myself redundant and let AI help me! I fed…
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Atoll of Diffraction
Presenting my series Atoll of Diffraction in its entirety! Digital art inspired by and based on physics, generated by custom, hand-crafted code. These images are low resolution versions – the original images are 6000 pixels wide. ~ ~ Stellar Corona. ~ Peek through the Peaks. An uncomfortable departure from perfect symmetry. ~ After the Encounter…
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Bringing Digital Art into the Real World
When you draw on paper you see your artwork emerging gradually. You see how it looks like in the real world (Of course it does! Sounds trivial!). When I am creating digital art, I also see it emerging slowly. I am creating art with code, and it takes many iterations of the code until I…
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Those Mice Will Haunt Me Forever
Douglas Adams explained it well: These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vast hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings. The whole business with the cheese and the squeaking is just a front.’ — Douglas Adams. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The…
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On the Fringes of Colours
I am turning Thomas Young’s sparkling language into poetry! Raw material: The Bakerian Lecture, Experiments and Calculations relative to Physical Optics, 1803. It’s really Colours, not Colors in this case! I am picking a single line from the first page of this historical article, two lines from each other page. No editing and rearranging allowed!…
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Diffraction Patterns for Everyone!
Decades ago, little elkement scavenged for transparent objects. For science! I dismantled an antique lorgnette to use the lenses for my optics experiments. I did not treat these vintage treasures with much respect, discarding the metal rims. There was also a cuboid block of acrylic, a nerdy paperweight: A piece of an circuit board was…
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Creative Process. An Accidental Post!
This has been an old draft that I have accidentally published today :-) I have taken it offline quickly because it seemed outdated, and maybe too long-winded. I did not publish it when I wrote it in January 2022; at that time I did not want to overdo art posts, in comparison with pure science…
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After the Encounter
Aeons ago I was an aspiring junior manager attending a workshop that should prepare me for the challenges of leadership. With other tech experts soon-to-be-turned managers, I did a warm-up exercise: Crafting a short story. Each sentence had to start with a letter of my full name. This might have been the earliest trace of…
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Peek through the Peaks
An uncomfortable departure from perfect symmetry. I’ve created a virtual sculpture that is perfectly symmetrical – as it is grounded in the physics of the diffraction of light. I walk around it, and I peek through is spiky peaks, trying to see the perfect echo of the peak near me. In order to reveal the…