Tag: Creative Process
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Rolling Not Slipping – Story of a Twirling Ellipsoid
I can’t help it – I use the first title that pops into my mind! “Rolling, not slipping” is the punchline of a mathematical argument used in classical mechanics, in the theory of the motion of a gyroscope. But I am not going to do it justice in this blog post (apart from a math…
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Spinning Projection – a Tiny Canvas Print, a Long Time in the Making
These spheres and lines have been haunting me. I have been writing about stereographic projection so often – and created so much related geometrical art – that I created a blog post just for curating all the links to my own articles: Stereographic Retrospective. This year, I have created a series of six drawings of…
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Saying Hello to New Subscribers and Introducing Poinsot’s Pixel Spaceship!
A bunch of you have signed up recently here or via my new store, or you started following this blog via platforms like Mastodon (in the Fediverse)! Thanks a lot for following elkement.art! I want to welcome you all and give you an overview of what to expect here! I have been blogging since 2012,…
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Circles to Circles #5. Following the Rules.
Engineering is the art of creating solutions under constraints. The more rigid the constraints, the more creative you need to get. Art benefits from constraints, too. A long time ago, I discovered the joy of following – my own – silly rules when creating Found Poetry: Creating the labyrinth from which you want to escape.…
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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…
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Cathedral of Math – Rebuilt!
I have done it! I had repaired version 1 of the cathedral several times, and I finally ruined it. So, I’ve rebuilt it from scratch – to create a slightly different, and hopefully better version. Come back stronger! This took me longer than anything I had drawn before. Click on the images in this gallery…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Repetitive!
I told you: It will be repetitive, it will be boring, and it will maybe be weird…. my art blogging, that is! I have opted out of scraping for AI training. Maybe my articles will gradually also fade away in search engines’ indices – when search engines and AI will have become one. Again, I…
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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.…
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An Impossible, Wormhole-Facilitated Collaboration
I created my ribbons of diffraction two years ago. No, I do not need a wormhole to go back to 2022! But I used one, back then – connecting to the 17th century. My ribbons are flapping and flopping in dark empty space. I needed space probes to inspect them: I found those in an…
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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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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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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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Solid and Ethereal. Reality and Imagination.
. Leaning on each other. Cutting through each other. Two towers are floating through empty space. Infinitely elongated bells. Delicate metal tubes. Tubular Bells. Forming rings. Ethereal, yet solid. . . I am crafting virtual sculptures: with code, I draw structures based on mathematical functions. I got to know these functions when I was learning…
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Stargate of Diffraction. Escaping the Labyrinth of Colorful Wires.
This blog has been many things. Experimental poetry playground, notes from the field by a small business owner, popular science and tech blog, compilation of dry research reports, self-referential musing of a web developer. The only intersection between all of this has been me being interested & invested in it. I had tech-blogged myself into…
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The Origin of Darkness
Where does it come from? Why and when did my physics/math/engineering art decide to only dwell on black backgrounds? I am sure there are proper theories in the history of art. I can come up with some armchair psychologist’s explanations – blaming popular culture, clichés, a collage of archetypical memories. I am a hacker. We…