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http://www.johnedmark.com/
I am so fascinated by John Edmark’s Golden Angle – Bloom (http://www.johnedmark.com/phifib/2016/4/28/blooms-strobe-animated-phi-based-sculptures). The work is by 3d printing, the shape itself is amazing enough, it’s the golden and sweet spot where math and art intersect. The ratio is called phi (ϕ), the same ratio that nature employs to generate the spiral patterns we see in pinecones and sunflowers.
That reminds me of when I made spirals, the number is so difficult to find, and the most beautiful curve is defined by only a few numbers that I had to test out. Then I got into this rabbit hole: Fermat’s spiral (https://flyingpudding.com/projects/florets/applet/) trying to figure out how the mathematical format is associated with the image. And I feel emotional about how the universe is created in a perfect way and we humans get to study it.
Not only the shape itself of the 3D printing object itself but the way he presents it – a video in which the object spins. I didn’t realize the magic until I looked deep – the object looks smoothly blooming. According to the artist “Rather than using a strobe, the camera was set to a very short shutter speed in order to freeze individual frames of the spinning sculpture. ”By then, the artist adds another dimension to the work – time. And with camera technology, made this magic happen.