Tag: Digital Art
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Reality and Imagination
Reality and Imagination is a series of thirteen images generated by custom, hand-crafted computer code. Each image shows the same virtual sculpture from a different viewpoint. I call it virtual as its shape is solely defined by a mathematical function – an object existing in the human mind, in the platonic realm of ideal objects.…
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Coffee-Powered Stargate
Let me open the Stargate of Diffraction for you, once again! This is as close as I ever got to a plain scientific visualization: No 3D effects, just the intensity of diffracted radiation as a function of position in space. If you use a sun catcher – a film with a diffraction grating – the…
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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…
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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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LinkedIn Timeline Poetry: Are You Prepared to Own?
Today, I am finding poetry in the posts in my LinkedIn feed! I check out the first post in my feed and pick a short snippet of text without editing it. This becomes the first line of the poem! Only after the first line is cast in stone, I visit the next search result and…
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The Aesthetics of Science
Many years ago I was shooting laser beams on stuff. “Stuff” was superconducting ceramic discs – though not superconducting at the time of bombarding it with short laser pulses :) Material evaporated in an instant and formed a delicate cloud, called a plasma plume. I added a small image of how that looked like to…
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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…
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I am Flying Through the City of Math!
… and you can, too: ~ This video deserves accompanying poetry! I am searching for the title of his post in a private Google window. From each web page or document listed in the search results I take a snippet. I must commit immediately: No editing, no re-arranging, no going back. ~ I am Flying…
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Dreaming of a Magnetic Field
Do you feel the magnetic field? Do you dream of of it? I sure do! … having completed this project: These are the flow lines of the magnetic generated by a circular current loop. They look almost like ellipses, embracing an (almost) torus. Each field line encircles the tiny current loop in the center. The…
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First Encounter
You try to find an object to draw. Ideally, it should already sit on your desk! Ideally, it should be translucent and sparkling! You try to make it look interesting… Adding little rainbows, perhaps? No sun today, so: Fetch the replacement sun! The spectrum of a flashlight is duller than that of the sun. The…
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Orbital Space Shuttle
I always see aliens or spaceships in my mathematical art – I cannot help it! I’ve started a series with promising, non-alien-related names: Orbital Autumn and Orbital Summer. Alas, the next one is called Orbital Space Shuttle, a digital collage of individual spaceships created with code: What does the internet tell me about the Orbital…
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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…
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Polar Glitch
I’ve embraced a new genre of art! I published my first video here, without telling anybody: Glitch in My Diffracted Dreams went online without notification e-mails. I wanted to upload the video somewhere without much of an explanatory text. There won’t be explanations today either, just random thoughts. I had resisted the urge to create…
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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…
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Celebration of Diffraction
It has been a while since elkement’s diffraction art has been presented to the world the first time ever. It was you, netizens(*) of the blogosphere(*), who saw it first – three years ago!(*) This is is internet dinosaur jargon This is the original Ribbon of Diffraction: Each image shows the same virtual sculpture from…
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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…
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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…
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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…