Tag: Orbitals
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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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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…