The medium I used for this 2004 painting, Imp, was acrylic on canvas. It turns out I have blogged this before, here, and I did not mean to create a duplicate post — but the colors appear different in the two photographs, so I have decided to leave them both on-line, anyway.
I recently found this “lost artwork” I made in 2010, two years before starting this blog. Traditionally, “op art” is black and white, only — but “traditionally” is a word seldom applied to anything I do, and I see no reason to change that now.
Someone found this, and “liked” it, in my old Facebook pictures. I had forgotten all about it, until this happened. It is a mandala, made of rhombi, with nine-fold symmetry, made in 2010 with Geometer’s Sketchpad — two years before I started this blog.
My mental jukebox’s default setting is “on,” which is nice. Usually, I can even consciously choose what to listen to, and it doesn’t cost me a cent.
It took three programs to make this. First, outlines of the “double rainbow” patterns on each face were constructed using Geometer’s Sketchpad. A screenshot from that program was then pasted into MS-Paint, which was used to add color to the outline of the pattern on each face. Next, the colorized image was projected onto each face of a rhombic triacontahedron, using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator — the program that put this all together, and what I used to generate the rotating .gif above. Stella is available at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php, with a free trial download available.
Interestingly, while this polyhedron itself is not chiral, the coloring-pattern of it, shown above, is.
With only small modifications, Stella can produce a very different version:
Which one do you like better?
Created using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator, software which is available for either purchase, or a free trial download, right here.
I made this with Stella 4d, which you can download here.
Created using Stella 4d, available here.
I used a program called Stella 4d to make this; it is available here.
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