Joanne Chui – Looking Outwards- 05

Andy Lomas is a mathematician and a computational artist. He creates computer generated 3D sculptures that explore and simulate different processes of growth. Growth by Aggregation is a study of how natural forms can produce such complex intricate aggregations just by adhering to simple mathematical laws. This is based on simulating disposition and flow and how these natural processes can create structures similar to coral. The artist’s creative sensibilities manifest in this computer graphic in how a lot of Lomas’s graphics visualize the process of expanding and contracting, dividing and multiplying, etc. What I find interesting about not only this computer graphic but also his other ones are the constraints that he uses in order to restrict the form that is produced, rather than creating a general massed aggregation.