Tag: Creative Coding

Ellipsoid Intersects Sphere – Digital Edition in Progress

I call my current series Poinsot’s Paper Spaceship for a reason: There is also Poinsot’s Pixel Spaceship in the making! Same physics, same idea! The motion of a force-free gyroscope can be described by an ellipsoid intersecting a sphere: The curve of intersection is the path the vector of angular momentum traces out – from…
$Stargate of Diffraction – Brought to Life!$

Stargate of Diffraction – Brought to Life!

When you look at a streetlamp through a finely woven curtain diffraction patterns are registered at the retina of your eye. When you look at the reflection of your reading light in your smartphone’s screen, diffraction happens. Instead of a sharp image, you see a kaleidoscopic multitude of rainbow-colored overlapping, blurry images. Each point of…
$Glitch in My Diffracted Dreams$

Glitch in My Diffracted Dreams

This shall be the title of my first ever video: My dreams of diffraction patterns and the function sin(x)/x! Implemented using a fragment shader in WebGL. ~ Yes, this has been the whole post! I published it quickly without sending a notification e-mail. I have been so excited! I just wanted to upload it somewhere…
Orbital Summer or: Happy Why Three Three

Sometimes I wonder who is going to click on titles like this? But this is indeed an Orbital Summer! I’ve portrayed spherical harmonic function Y33 – Why Three Three -at its happiest! This is a digital collage collage of several “orbitals” described by the spherical harmonic function Y_33. I’ve created each of the seven views…
Festive Spherical Harmonic Functions: Orbital Bloom

I’ve rendered them often, as crazy balloon dogs or mysterious moths. I’ve set them free. I’ve put them into perspective. Now I see Spherical Harmonics as festive ornaments, applying my signature style of metallic tubes. I wish you all peaceful holidays – sending you my festive orbitals intertwined with Found Poetry! ~ The Making Of…
elkement’s Art Is Part of the Mathematical Art Digital Exhibition at Queens College, New York!

It still feels surreal! Four artworks of my 2023 series Reality and Imagination are now on display in the Mathematical Art Digital Exhibition at Queens College, CUNY – The City University of New York. The digital images are displayed on screens, in their new multimedia space called The Matrix, and they are part of the…
Tornado on Tatooine

… in the background! I am still harvesting the same mathematical function “for art” – a tower with a base shaped like a cloverleaf. It has been styled as an exploding warp core, and as a cathedral. After the spectacle, I want it to calm down and fade into the background. The original image is…
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…
Reaching Out

Found Poetry inspired by art inspired by physics! ~ Reaching Out we identify the root causewe want to hear crossing the lineonly when debugging UNLOCK THE POWERIt has all the bells and whistlesand artisanal development This wouldn’t have happened ifI legitimately enjoyed the work we offer full supportWhen the approach is wrong I always search…
Sparse Spectral Spaceport: Alpha

The Sparse Spaceport series captures the essence of what I am trying to do with code art inspired by physics: ~ I want to convey the beauty of a phenomenon in physics – the diffraction of white light into rainbow colors, but (optionally) also the beauty of the underlying math. ~ I want to reconnect…
Spherical Harmonic Space Shuttle

I had been hesitant to harvest spherical harmonic functions for art. There are so many visualizations of them out there already! Usually, they are displayed as solid surfaces. Their lobes are colored in two distinct colors, like blue and red – to indicate the sign of the function, + or -. “Spherical” means that every…
Orbital Autumn

My code art had turned dark during the pandemic. I enjoy seeing my futuristic space stations floating in the dark. But it is autumn now – time of soft warm colors. The soft, rounded shapes of my spherical harmonic functions would match autumnal colors perfectly! This is my starting point: Alien structures on black. I…
Frozen Harmonics Floating in Deep Space

First, I saw only boring structures. Now I am overwhelmed with choices! It took me a while to find a strategy for harvesting the so-called spherical harmonic functions for art. Spherical harmonics pop up in different sub-fields of physics – whenever you need to describe something that changes along the surface of a sphere, using…
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…
Motivational Warp Core Explosion

I know, I need to get back to art based on physics! But I am taking a detour! I am collecting ideas and building blocks – art based on mathematics. The function powering the warp core is not that complicated. I guess, you could find related physics. But when my starting point was math, it…
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…
Inverted Atoll

I am applying my quadrant scheme to inverted diffraction art – looking at the same virtual, three-dimensional structure from four different viewing angles! This ‘atoll’ is built from mathematically exact diffraction curves – wavy lines, mounted on a circle! I am creating diffraction art with javascript, based on the framework threejs, no AI image generator…
Echo of Stellar Corona. Reflect It Wholly.

Last year I created a series called Atoll of Diffraction – mathematically exact diffraction curves mounted on a circle (created with threejs/javascript). I forced myself to pick four images – four different “configuration parameters” of diffraction gratings. But for every image I picked, there was a second one that nearly made it into my finally…