Tag: Lissajous Figures

elkement Art Spotted in the Real World!

“Modern and Traditional” This sounds like a clichéd slogan. But I cannot get it out of head when I see the photos a customer of my art store kindly has sent me! Digital art created with code (No AI) is as “modern” as it can get. When I initially thought about printing my art, another…
New Art Prints and Merch Store: Canvas Prints, Coffee Mugs, and Blankets with Physics-Inspired Art!

The title is the whole message, but let me add a mysterious trailer first! For years, I have been flying trough my structures from mathematical physics… Oscilloscopic Dance. Flying through virtual structures built from 3D Lissajous figures. … searching for the best viewpoint to take a snapshot. Searching for the art within the math. Searching…
Lissajous Figures – Nostalgia and Innovation

Where did the impulse to draw 3D Lissajous figures come originally? I was looking for a compact three-dimensional curved shape. It should be symmetrical enough to allow for “easy geometrical doubling” of some points. But it should be asymmetrical enough to look surprisingly different from different viewpoints! Finding uncommon ways of looking at 3D structures…
Lissajous Trilogy on Canvas

Let me show you the genesis of my most involved watercolor pencils drawing so far! I have constructed 3D Lissajous figures on paper, projecting the three-dimensional world down to two dimensions. But I want my artworks to look three-dimensional, too! So, I am using a canvas stretched on wood. My experiments with canvas board taught…
Translucent Heart

Last year I’ve started drawing mathematical functions (relevant to physics), using traditional techniques of descriptive geometry. The very first test was an attempt to capture the three-dimensional Lissajous figure built from sin(t)/sin(2t)/sin(3t). Here is a blog post on the history of Lissajous in a Box! I’ve returned to it several times, and I ran out…
Cubed Oscillations 5-8-11

More and less. More oscillations, more curves. No projecting lines shown, no boxes. Less educational, more mysterious. More confusing. More artefacts and Moiré effects. Cubed Oscillations is a mini-series of four images: Colorful three-dimensional Lissajous figures built from their projections to the three co-ordinate planes. I am showing the same structure from four different viewing…
Three Four Five – Acrylic Print Test

Next episode of elkement’s printing tests! I had my math / code art Lissajous Three Four Five printed at a local print shop – as an acrylic print. I am always anxious when unboxing such prints, especially when the digital version is a glowing vibrant structure on dark background: Its natural habitat is a screen.…
Lissajous in a Box

Planning for a new project, I am revisiting my first geometric drawings! Looking at my first ever attempt at using traditional descriptive geometry techniques to create an image of the 3D Lissajous figure described by x=sin(t)y=sin(2t)z=sin(3t) t should be a suggestive name for a parameter – reminiscent of time. As time goes on, an imaginary…
Three Four Five

What is the simplest way of conveying an idea? What is the minimum number of lines and colors needed for creating art? Can I turn something simple into something intriguing? Such have been the questions on my mind when I started creating three-dimensional Lissajous figures with code. Using traditional descriptive geometry – in the style…
Orthodox Butterflies

I am oscillating (:-)) between different styles and media, all over the place – code, drawing, collage, drawing+collage, code+collage. Eventually, I will combine a lot of this! I am on my path of developing my style, and I am testing things sequentially. I have been creating art with code for quite a while, focusing on…
Lissajous Trilogy 234

There was 123, so here is 234! When you create an axonometric drawing, the two-dimensional projections are lying flat in the drawing plane. But you do not see how the projection would work in three-dimensional space. In 234 I am attempting to add this additional view: Show both the projections as I need them for…
Lissajous Subversion

Today’s artwork looks out of character, but it matches the colors of elkement’s – The Subversive El(k)ement’s – first home on the web! Red. Bold. Weird. Experimental. Playing with dancing 3D Lissajous figures again. Putting them in quadrants again. I want to create something energetic and aggressive. Not for your chill-out area, but maybe for…
Lissajous Quadrupole. Joys of the Early Web.

In the old days you did not blog or post but fiddled with HTML tags on the text files making up your weird personal website. You could not fathom that somebody else would enter your personal space on the web and leave a “comment”. Occasionally, you received an e-mail related to your website, or a…
Drawing Slowly What Code Could Produce Quickly

Why? I am not trying to answer this question. I am just observing. I’ve started to draw – with compass and ruler – what code could generate in seconds. Or does it? I have forgotten all the jargon I learned in Descriptive Geometry classes decades ago. I am enjoying rediscovering the principles, just playing around.…
Lissajous Dance

Imagine a point of light dancing in the dark, probably the illuminated tip of a tuning fork, or an LED light attached to a pendulum. Now envisage the pendulum oscillating in two dimensions, like Foucault’s Pendulum or a harmonograph. In the dark, the tip of pendulum traces out a squiggly path. The natural oscillation is…