sacred geometry art

Fractal flotilla? Topological temple? Self-similar shrine? Growing options for fractal art

Monday, 28 June 2021 by Bruce Rawles

$IMception: fractal flotilla?$

This intriguing image is among those featured in this article about a Kickstarter campaign – by Raksha Singla, creator of IMception, a new project which aims to add a newcomer to the existing field of fractal generation software:

“This exciting new program on Kickstarter is a gateway for an eternal journey into the world of fractal illustrations. It is so simple to use that anyone can instantly become a confident artist.”

Here’s a related article with some current options for making your own fractal artistry: Ultimate Guide to Fractal Generators: The Best Fractal Software in 2021 (Free & Paid)

Here are numerous prior posts on the GeometryCode website that reference fractals.

Kinetic Geometric Art

Thursday, 6 May 2021 by Bruce Rawles

The dimension of time coupled with the other three spatial dimensions can add tremendously to the potential of geometric art as exemplified in these kinetic sculptures. We first looked at David C. Roy’s kinetic sculptures a few years ago, and this video provides an enjoyable update on his mesmerizing moving mandalas… and other kinetic art which leverages lots of talents including geometric sensibilities.

Moving further into full 3-dimensional kinetic art, here are more lovely examples of moving geometric art by artist Ivan Black. Among many other exquisite designs in this video, if you always wanted to see the (Fibonacci Spiral) “Whirling Squares” animated in 3D, check out this outdoor, wind-driven yellow sculpture which starts about 9:17 through about 10:03 into the video; gives new vitality to the “whirling” adjective! :-)

… and in case you missed it (or would like to be wowed again), here’s a link to a prior post from this site that links to Blooms: Phi-Based Strobe Animated Sculptures that heterodyne rhythmically in dazzling fashion, benefitting from the use of stroboscopic light applied to rotating forms with golden ratio proportions.

Sketches in Code: Randomness and Patterns in Science and Art – Livermore, CA exhibit

Wednesday, 28 April 2021 by Bruce Rawles

While visiting my hometown of Livermore, California this month, I was fortunate to see a very well done exhibit in the lobby of the Bankhead Theater entitled “Sketches in Code: Randomness and Patterns in Science and Art” which featured several interactive exhibits as well as numerous examples of 2D and 3D art, many of which will be familiar to those of us who have studied these realms for decades. Here is the detail from the Livermore Arts website:

Science, math, computers and art meet nature Explore how the intersection of mathematics, science, art and computers can be used to visualize and create artistic pieces which also describe and explain nature. As you tour this exhibit, we hope you see that, while art has often been described as an opposing discipline to mathematics, science and computers, in many ways they are very similar. In the end, all are creative processes that involve a journey of discovery. This exhibit is co-sponsored by Livermore Arts and Quest Science Center Bankhead Theater Gallery Feb 12–May 2 Open Fridays 2-6pm; Sat and Sun 1-5pm Limited entry, masks required. Family-friendly interactive exhibits with Covid protocols in place. Join us for this (exhibit) of science-meets-art.

If you’re reading this before May 2, 2021, you may still have time to see the exhibit in person if you’re in the San Francisco Bay area; recommended for the entire spectrum of those completely unfamiliar with the subject to those well-versed. Here are some cell phone photos of the exhibit items (most self-explanatory):

The first two photos are of a particularly nice 3D printed Sierpinski Tetrahedron (fractal tetrahedron) at the top of this article, with the second photo being a fun interior view with a pentagram-like interior contour:

If you’d like to make a Sierpinski Tetrahedron – a great geometry classroom or home school project! – here’s a fun sped-up how to video: (which also demos the same idea for a Menger Sponge.

$examples of fractals$

$fractal examples$

$fractal branching$

Symbols of Interconnectedness Everywhere

Thursday, 31 December 2020 by Bruce Rawles

As we close out a very surreal year, we wish you the peace that arises from the realization that we’re all interconnected and therefore kindness is appropriate every where and every when. Note the ring of Vesica Piscis shapes around the middle cylinder in this ceiling decoration in a hotel lobby. :-) The Vesica Piscis is the “lens” that is formed when two identical circles (symbolizing two identical seemingly separate selves) exactly touch overlapping so that one circle touches the “heart” or center of the other and vice versa. I imagine Plato (if he were around to comment) might suggest that even these helpful symbols are not the perfection – that transcends their apparent form – that the circles merely represent; the reality or essence in our minds is beyond any specific instance in space or time that the shapes, no matter how elegant or refined, could possibly convey. Like holograms, each of us contains the whole although not apparent to our senses. May 2021 be an opportunity for all of us to deepen our appreciation of the wholeness within every seeming part! :-)

Metatron Cube 3D Animation – Flower of Life – Platonic Solids – video

Monday, 30 November 2020 by Bruce Rawles

Here’s a fun 3-D video animation showing how the vertices of the five Platonic Solids and their “shadow” projections from 3-dimensional space to the 2-dimensional plane align with intersections of lines in the classic “Seed of Life”, “Flower of Life”, “Fruit of Life” and “Metatron’s Cube” line art illustrations, progressing from Tetrahedron to Star Tetrahedron to Cube (Hexahedron) to Octahedron to Icosahedron to Dodecahedron.

If you’d like to explore the relationship of “Metatron’s Cube” and “Flower of Life” (progressing from “Seed of Life”) line art illustrations with the Platonic Solids (all illustrated in the video above) and much more, check out my first book, Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook: Universal Dimensional Patterns!

The “Seed of Life”, “Flower of Life”, and “Fruit of Life” illustrations (with numerous variations) cover are on pages 85 through 93. Pages 94 and particularly page 95 (a low-res image shown above) explore the Metatron’s Cube relationships in detail.