Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Art”
Million Point Sculptures: an exploration tool written in Metal
In which your hopeful protagonist describes Million Point Sculptures, and a highly interactive exploration tool written in Metal.
In the 1980s there was a wave of fascination with fractals and chaos in popular culture, and several books really caught the imagination of young me.
One was Chaos by James Gleick (un classique)1. Also there were some lovely books by Clifford Pickover, like Computers and the Imagination, containing curious things like Million Point Sculptures: intriguing generated art showing wispy smoke-clouds. They’re generated by some quite simple equations.
Tesselation project (and a simple concave polygon hit test algorithm)
I’ve exhibited at Colony of Artists several times, a vibrant art festival at Abbeyhill Colonies in Edinburgh.
One of the things I was showing and selling was my tesselation pieces: designs inspired by MC Escher’s work, particularly matamorphosing tesselations.
Some of these pieces play with negative space and the transition from 3D to 2D: