GENIUS MATH ART NOW
At first blush math and art seem to be on opposite sides of a spectrum. But when you think about it, geometry has always been a factor. And now, with new technologies available for imaging, animating, and sculpting that can be programmed mathematically and envisioned with precision, a new crop of math art has emerged.
We’ve got some math-based edgy paintings, some amazing GIFs and some cool 3D printing to share today.
NOT ART -- WARSHEH
The Golden Ratio, is made explicit, superimposed on a series of classic paintings by Warsheh, a design duo from Jordan. They explored the relationship between Math and Art in a series entitled NOT Art.
With pieces like “NOT Girl With a Pearl Earing,” “NOT Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan,” and “NOT Saint Francis in Meditation,” familiar images are highlighted to show their spatial geometric matrices.
Warsheh, which means “studio” in Arabic, do not consider themselves to be artists, but rather designers. They don’t consider their Golden Ratio series to be art… but rather posters.
The pieces were each given a title that includes “NOT” lest the viewer somehow mistake them for original paintings. But we see these math-enhanced images as new works, art in their own right… no matter how many times their creators say they are NOT.
MATH GIFS - DAVID WHYTE
In what started out as an on-the-side activity - creating humorous GIFs with pop-culture references, David Whyte’s tumblr has turned into one huge virtual, geometric exhibit!
In a series entitled Bees & Bombs, Whyte releases new images and GIFs almost every day - gaining hundreds of likes, comments, and re-posts on each one!
Whyte’s background in mathematics and physics influence his understanding of motion and geometric form.
With minimalistic geometric designs, moving in dizzying rhythms, Whyte combines technology, mathematics, and art together in a perfect amalgamation.
Check out more of his work here.
3D PRINTINGS & MATH ART -- PAUL NYLANDER
A new category of art, dubbed Math Art, is producing some beautiful works, with breathtaking imagery and mind blowing patterns. Now it is being expressed sculpturally with new materials and 3D printing.
Artist Paul Nylander uses a variety of mathematical formulae to produce his spectacular designs. Nylander was trained in mechanical engineering and computer programming. He is largely self-taught in coding and he learns from example.
Check out his Loxodrome Lamp, which illuminates a double spiral of light onto the wall using stereographic projection.
Nylander’s 3D printed rose is plotted with “a single, continuous, parametric math equation.” He got this idea while trying to create a visualization of a spiraling spin-lattice relaxation for a physics experiment involving a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer.
Nyander works with Mathematica formula to create his pieces. He shares the specifics on his site so you can reproduce them yourself if you are so inspired. Or you can purchase some of his mathematical sculptures on his Shapeways page.
Read more about Beautiful Math, as they relate to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact including Math is a Beautiful Thing Right Now: 10 New Books, Math Beats Cancer and Makes Brain More Beautiful Now, and Math Tastes Beautiful Now.
Enter your own images and ideas about Beautiful Math in this week’s creative Photo Competition. Open for entries now until 11:59 p.m. PT on 09.21.14. If you are reading this after that date, check out the current BN Creative Competition, and enter!
PHOTO CREDITS:
- Image: by Warsheh. “NOT Girl with a Pearl Earring.”
- Image: by Warsheh. “NOT Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan.”
- Image: by Warsheh.”NOT Portrait of a Young Girl.”
- Image: by Warsheh.”NOT The Conversion of St Paul.”
- Image: by Warsheh. “NOT The Death of Marat.”
- GIF: by David Whyte. Spirals.
- GIF: by David Whyte. “Virtual Torus.”
- GIF: by David Whyte. “Flower.”
- GIF: by David Whyte. “Cube / Octahedron.”
- GIF: by David Whyte. “Squares.”
- Image: by Paul Nylander. “Chen-Gackstatter Minimal Surface.”
- Image: by Paul Nylander. “Nebulabrot.”
- Image: by Paul Nylander. Dodeca Spidroball.
- Photo: by Paul Nylander. Nylander Rose.
- Photo: by Paul Nylander. Geodesic Sphere - Model for Loxodrome Lamp.
- GIF: by David Whyte. “Weaving Stars.”