Tag: Science-Themed Art
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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…
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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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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…
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Geometry of the Physics of the Gyroscope – on a Coffee Mug!
Construct the Labyrinth from Which You Plan to Escape … has been the motto of the Oulipo movement, French writers and mathematicians who have boosted their creative writing by imposing arbitrary constraints. I had practiced Oulipo long before I knew the term. I just called it Search Term Poetry or Spam Poetry. I have been…
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New Art Prints and Merch Store: Canvas Prints, Coffee Mugs, and Blankets with Physics-Inspired Art!
The title is the whole message, but let me add a mysterious trailer first! For years, I have been flying trough my structures from mathematical physics… Oscilloscopic Dance. Flying through virtual structures built from 3D Lissajous figures. … searching for the best viewpoint to take a snapshot. Searching for the art within the math. Searching…
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Evil Ellipsoids and Spheres (Poinsot’s Paper Spaceship #4)
Do you remember how photo negatives looked like? The inverted versions of the most common colors looked so unreal. Hues of orange, violet, or cyan that you never saw in the real world. Happy smiling human people looked like turquoise zombies with an evil grin. When creating this geometric drawing, I haven’t been thinking about…
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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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Circles to Circles #6. The Making Of.
Number 6 is the last one in my series about stereographic projection! In this post, I am looking back at the creation of the whole series! It has started with messy sketches: How to fit the sphere and the circles onto a small sheet of A5 paper? How to make all six of them distinct…
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Circles to Circles #3. Using the Invisible Simple Box
When you do your geometry homework, everything fits nicely on a sheet of standard paper. Problems have been carefully designed to make this happen! I had never appreciated this – until I created my own geometry challenges. Either the different views were overlapping too much or interesting features were pushed beyond the edges of the…
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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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“The Over-All Space-Time View”
… is an expression Richard Feynman had used in his 1949 paper Space-Time Approach to Quantum Electrodynamics. It seems to be one of the earliest publications featuring his famous diagrams. Feynman diagrams are related to interactions of particles, and they look like cartoon illustrations of particles bumping into each other. But they are actually mnemonics…
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Circles to Circles – a Series in Progress
When I started creating mathematical artworks with code, the result was a series: I developed a virtual 3D sculpture, looked at it from different viewpoints with my virtual camera … and could not decide which “snapshot” I liked best. So, I panned and pivoted my camera and shot up about 10 different still images along…
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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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Poinsot’s Dancing Cones
I have always loved the physics of the gyroscope. There are so many different mathematical / conceptual / geometrical ways to capture the same thing. Lots of interesting ellipsoids and cones are waiting to be drawn! Here, I am visualizing the motion of a gyroscope free of external forces, involving three cones, following Louis Poinsot.…
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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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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…
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They Rebuilt Notre-Dame. So Will I!
This has been my Cathedral of Math – a freehand perspective drawing colored with every pen I have! Coloring was partly accidental. I nearly ruined it several times and repaired it again. Read the full story with work-in-progress photos here. It has been so shiny and I liked my “acrylic droplet texture” (This was intentional!)…
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Three Four Five – Acrylic Print Test
Next episode of elkement’s printing tests! I had my math / code art Lissajous Three Four Five printed at a local print shop – as an acrylic print. I am always anxious when unboxing such prints, especially when the digital version is a glowing vibrant structure on dark background: Its natural habitat is a screen.…