Tag: threejs

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.…
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…
Friendly Sparkling Alien Spaceships

I know, I am again using this metaphor! But once I saw the friendly alien spaceships in these images, I could not unsee them! There is more background information about these sparkling ellipsoid and spheres in my previous post. Today I only want to show you number 2 and 3 in this series of four…
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…
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…
Ellipsoid Intersects Sphere – Digital Edition in Progress

I call my current series Poinsot’s Paper Spaceship for a reason: There is also Poinsot’s Pixel Spaceship in the making! Same physics, same idea! The motion of a force-free gyroscope can be described by an ellipsoid intersecting a sphere: The curve of intersection is the path the vector of angular momentum traces out – from…
$Celebration of Diffraction$

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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sparse Spectral Spaceport: Alpha

The Sparse Spaceport series captures the essence of what I am trying to do with code art inspired by physics: ~ I want to convey the beauty of a phenomenon in physics – the diffraction of white light into rainbow colors, but (optionally) also the beauty of the underlying math. ~ I want to reconnect…
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…
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…
Three Four Five

What is the simplest way of conveying an idea? What is the minimum number of lines and colors needed for creating art? Can I turn something simple into something intriguing? Such have been the questions on my mind when I started creating three-dimensional Lissajous figures with code. Using traditional descriptive geometry – in the style…
Motivational Warp Core Explosion

I know, I need to get back to art based on physics! But I am taking a detour! I am collecting ideas and building blocks – art based on mathematics. The function powering the warp core is not that complicated. I guess, you could find related physics. But when my starting point was math, it…
Sparse Spectral Spaceport: Psi Psi Star

I could say, I am just numbering the artworks in this series by using Greek letters. So this one is item Psi! But I have created a sparse spaceport from diffraction curves in spectral colors. It is not a single Psi, but rather a Psi Psi Star … … the absolute square of the wave…
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…