Tag: Physics-Inspired Art

Dare to Be Negative!

Do you remember analog photo negatives? I still have some, tucked away deep in the archives. I always found them eerie and uncanny. Humans turned into zombies with black teeth. Burnt orange, weird cyan and violet everywhere. But what did I expect? We don’t have an intuition for addition or subtraction of colors. Would you…
Futuristic T-Shirts for Physics Geeks!

Have I started the elkement.art fashion brand? I have been working on the series Poinsot’s Pixel Spaceship for ages. I have been thinking about releasing wall art, but then I tested a different product – the classical print-on-demand product: T-shirts. And THIS WAS IT! This is the perfect surface I want to print this spaceship-like…
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…
My Posts Escaped. And So Did I! Or: Math is My Blanket!

I did maintenance work on my blog, touching all the posts. As my blog is also a Fediverse instance needed to take great care that changed blogs did not get posted there again. Of course, some of them escaped, and I had to post – again – writing about this! I found a workaround to…
Poinsot’s Gyroscope and the Magic of Precession.

Nobel prize winners have been fascinated by it: You can learn about the underlying mathematics. You can solve differential equations. But do you really feel why it does not fall? When gravity tries to topple a spinning top, the top escapes sideways, sort of, by precessing: The axis of rotation is changing slowly. There is…
Frozen Harmonics – on Canvas!

Last Friday, I got my haul from the print shop! I had my mathematical artwork Frozen Harmonics printed on canvas, and I absolutely like the result! My “product photography” has room for improvement, but the colors and the black background really look way more vibrant / saturated than I expected. The black looks perhaps even…
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…
Have We Changed After All? (2)

I’ve never attempted to ask the oracle twice. Will it be consistent? In 2021 Google helped me to create a found poem. I started from the seed phrase / title: Have We Changed After All? and this was the process: Today, I will use the same exact title again! I am asking the question again…
On Inspiration. Eye of the Harmonograph.

Once, an art platform was asking about who – which artists – have been inspiring me. I want to recapture which artists came to my mind when I filled in that artist profile: ~ Physicist (and noble prize winner) Roger Penrose. I read his book The Road to Reality during the pandemic. Consider it a…
Lifting the Veil. Dramatically, and Starting from Violet.

Digital art inspired from physics, and found poetry seeded from the title of this post. ~ Lifting the Veil. Dramatically, and Starting from Violet. I could unpack it furtherI’m taking a bit of a hiatus If all sensations cease to existrise from the ashes If you want to make a statementdelve into the enigmatic realm…
Make It Real

I don’t like stuff, usually. I am discarding sentimental things relentlessly. I feel that ‘memorabilia’ are creepy time capsules. I am digitizing all the things. I keep physical things if the law requires me to. I want stuff to be functional. I want my walls to be pristine, white, and bleak. So, it has come…
Sparse and Spectral. The Prequel.

I have created this image more than a year ago. I considered it too sparse. Or is it? And yet, every time I have stumbled upon this sparse spaceport, it seems to tell me I had to explore it more! I have recently played with Lissajous figures, and I finally managed to make them glow.…
Electron Blues

a specific reducing agentmay change without notice progressively less time on the progressively more distantaccumulation of electrons electromagnetic round lensesthe existence of which had earlier been doubted three electron donors were interacting withstructures known for polyanions An electron transporting bluethe other orbitals being far away these terms describe the same concepta situation which requires a…
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…
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…
Timid Violet Ripples Morphing into Distorted Waves of Red

I am finding poetry again – Constructing the Labyrinth from Which I Plan to Escape! Again, my visual art should give me the title for the poem! The title shall also be the seed I feed to Google. These artworks are from the era when I did not name them. This is just number 2…
A Ribbon in the Dark

Found Poetry[*] and physics-inspired digital art[**] by elkement. No AI involved. A Ribbon in the Dark Unblocked, this light producesemergency guidance you think this block is an errorwhich we keep on stock when it comes into contactit lasts many years Add or subtract the relative darknessOutside-wound and inside-wound will switch Ribbon unwindingcritically important to the…
$Diffracted Metropolis (Reversed)$

Diffracted Metropolis (Reversed)

Starting a New Year of blogging, with a combination of physics-inspired art and found poetry! ~ I am trying to reduce my diffraction art to the bare essence: Plain dots. I am celebrating the beauty of diffraction and natural spectral colors, as well as the beauty of the undulating lines that represent the mathematical functions…