Tag: Spherical Harmonics

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…
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…
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…
Putting Things in Perspective

What seemed important and huge is not a big deal. If you get too close, distortions will scare you. Lines become dots, planes become lines, and space becomes a plane. I wanted to set the Spherical Harmonic functions free – now I want to put them draw them in perspective! Spherical harmonic function Y_32 looks…
Reaching Out

Found Poetry inspired by art inspired by physics! ~ Reaching Out we identify the root causewe want to hear crossing the lineonly when debugging UNLOCK THE POWERIt has all the bells and whistlesand artisanal development This wouldn’t have happened ifI legitimately enjoyed the work we offer full supportWhen the approach is wrong I always search…
Setting the Spherical Harmonic Functions Free!

I’ve said I put my art on repeat until the bots take over. I foresee a future where a “prompt artist” feeds the vague descriptions of my code art to a bot. The AI will create proper code – replicating what I had done. That’s an issue especially with code art, as there is no…
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…
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…
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…
Balloon Dog Supernova

Do you see it? Spherical harmonic functions look like balloon dogs to me – at least the simpler ones! All those rounded lobes, pinched off in the center! These functions are described by the distance of the balloon dog surface from the origin, as this “radius” varies with two angles – the co-ordinates of a…
Frozen Harmonics Floating in Deep Space

First, I saw only boring structures. Now I am overwhelmed with choices! It took me a while to find a strategy for harvesting the so-called spherical harmonic functions for art. Spherical harmonics pop up in different sub-fields of physics – whenever you need to describe something that changes along the surface of a sphere, using…