#physics inspired art

[elkement]

Diffraction art by elkement, 2024

Inverted Atoll

Applying my 'quadrant scheme' to inverted diffraction art!

Four different viewing angles - looking at the same virtual 3D structure built from diffraction curves!

Created with javascript, based on threejs, no AI.

In the center of the structure is a hypothetical diffraction grating with 4 slits, 330 nanometers wide, 4500 nanometers apart - sort of reasonable parameters from the perspective of physics. Beams of white light hit the slits, light is diffracted into pure spectral colors. 200 lines, walking through the spectrum of colors in 200 steps.

This was the physics part, now the art part :-)

- I am inverting the pure spectral colors. Probably an alien from a foreign galaxy would see the colors like this. - I do not simulate the diffraction patterns as you would see them - just blurry stripes of colors. But I take the mathematical curves that describe these stripes. What fascinates me is that optics and diffraction is one of the few fields in physics where vibrant colors also make sense and are "correct" and not only an arbitrary choice for visualization. Showing a peak where the center of a stripe would be in an experiments makes the artistic representation similar to the natural phenomenon but not exactly the same. - I look at the structure from different angles and at different distances. Like a space probe exploring a weird, colorful anomaly in space :-) - I like the Moire effects and irregularities, maybe even potential "rendering errors" when overlapping the lines. - It is an "atoll" - I completed the circle, so white light would hit the grating from two directions, 180° apart.

[saint-hymn]

a minor inconvenience, really

[turtletoria]

i wanted to try drawing older Mabel and Dipper !

[somnimagus]

out of the frying pan and into the fire and into another frying pan that's also on fire

[id in alt text]

[fogmoo]

quick Kabru and Laios fanart 🌼^^

[snekky-arts]

sorry i'm late i was busy with the existential crisis of it all

anyway, have something that gave me so much trouble but i think it turned out kinda well

also, this and the rest of this series are available on my Inprnt!!

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6

[sheerricetorrent]

Skill-Bug concepts (part 1?)

[skullfacedlady]

Happy birthday, @fanaticsnail 💙

Happy birthday, my dearest Snail. How glad I am to be able to call you my friend and do this for you. I am glad for all the times I managed to get to know you better through our messages. And I am glad for being able to wish you a happy birthday and gift you this Cora pic I drew just for you. I drew it quite a while ago always with the intention of gifting it to you, but when I found out when your birthday is, I decided to make it a little bit more special. I love you, Snail, and I'm happy to have you in my life. With all that said, once more, happy birthday, and I hope you have lots of fun. Enjoy your Rosi like this, peaceful.

[paintedcrows]

Human Bill! I wanna put him in a microwave

Bonus-ish: Really liked the flats on this one!

[notthatcount]

Quick and goofy Arthur and John (and alexander) cooldown from the newest Malevolent ep~

[minnieeeworld]

HiMERU is the perfect idol.

[elkement]

Cubed Oscillations 5-8-11

Back to 3D Lissajous structures!

More and less: More oscillations, more curves. No projecting lines shown, no cubes. Less educational, more mysterious, more confusing, more artefacts and Moiré effects.

Rainbow-y sin(5t)/sin(8t)/sin(11t) "built from" its projections to the three co-ordinate planes - 2D Lissajous figures. Showing the same structure from four different viewing angles.

Created with javascript/threejs, no AI.

While harmonic oscillations and the spectral colors have relevance in physics, this combination has not. However, I wanted to combine rainbow colors with white, making the aesthetics feel like my freehand drawings of dispersion prism: White lines and rainbows. Usually I have a vague idea, then start coding / changing parameters. in 90% of experiments I do not like the first attempt, at all. Sometimes I shelve the whole idea after hours of trying. In this case the result was what I had hoped for.

I have swapped the order of colors: The heart is read, the periphery is violet... so if some "particle on a Lissajous trajectory" had something to do with the energy of these photos, at least the more energetic should result in a larger "radius". I was thinking to make the radius dependent on the square root of the frequency or something ... but decided against as this is only "inspired by physics" anyway.

My main motivation is to use rather simple functions, and a simple representation (lines, no "effects") and create something unexpected by using an unfamiliar point of view.

[ghospectr]

we do a little looking to the moon <3

[n4391]

5 out of 7! Here's all of my Archon illustrations from the past 3 years! I can't believe there's only 2 more to go...

[fiery-emblems]

The other day I drew an idea for "what if branded could transform", but really I just wanted to design a dragon. In reality I think you could take the idea way further.

What if you were to take the idea of branded being half laguz way more literally?? Basically I think it would be cool to have more of a half transformation resulting in what are basically monsters from myth and legend. Of course, I continue to have an interest in a story where the branded are the main characters and the heroes so, making them look like monsters but actually be good guys is fun to me!

The first and most obvious version of this idea would be the half human/half wolf (werewolf). I don't think they would lose themselves like werewolves, but they are the most iconic animal human hybrid design!

The next most obvious design would be half human/half bird (harpies). I think its important to really push the animal aspect and not just make them sexy sexy mostly human things. I think it would be fun to explore the design differences between hawk harpies, raven harpies, and heron harpies.

The cats are the hardest ones to design imo because there aren't that many human/cat hybrid monsters in mythology that aren't also mixed with even more animals. Its probably fine to just follow the example of the wolves and do were-cats though. Still cool!

For dragons I actually think there are a couple different directions you could go in. For this idea I basically went with your standard high fantasy/DnD demons and devils. There's only one half dragon in Tellius but this is another case where it would be really fun to design different looks for red, white or black half dragons since the ones we see in canon have slightly different builds and horn designs plus the different skin colors. (I would go with different skin colors like tieflings. The whole idea is for them to look like monsters and I think dragons should be scary!!)

The other idea I had would be for half dragons to be oni? Basically the same design sensibility but you would lose the wings. My reason for this idea is because oni are cool dragons in Tellius are kind of seen as this terrifying force of nature that could destroy everyone if they wanted to, which is kind of what oni are as well. I think it could work nicely.

[wheucto]

this is what happened in ii16 right