The Physics Of Jackson Pollock

Via Jean Kelley - (Here) is an interesting bit on the physics of Jackson Pollock.

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Fibonacci Numbers

Sent to us by Michelle Kurtis Cole was info about the Fibonacci Number Sequence and the golden number, golden ratio and all sorts of goodies derived from that. Check out the video



and also



Thanks so much to Michelle.

Interviews on Creativity: Art West Agency Welcomes Kira Carrillo Corser

Learn the perspective of this talented artist, writer, and video producer in Art West Agency's ongoing series called 'Interviews on Creativity'.

Polytope Slicer

The question was raised, in one of the previous comments, concerning the building of patterns in a 3D shape. - There are infinite answers to this but I find the following link here most interesting.

This is the Polytope Slicer which continuously shows 3 dimensional section cuts through a four dimensional object.

To wrap you head around this - just think of the image of a 3 dimensional wireframe cube with it shadow projected on the wall ( two dimensional surface) - In effect we are projecting the cube into the next dimension down - from 3D to 2D - The image shown above is a hyperdodecahedron (which is a four dimensional object) and we are looking at a 3d section cut of it in (the next dimension down)

Jonathan Glasier

Our Member, Jonathan Glasier is in Berlin for the "Political Patterns" international exhibit at the IFA Gallerie ( Gallery of Foreign and International Arts and Culture) which is a German State sponsored gallery that has existed in Berlin for past 20 years. The Dulcimoon Harp is an 87 string employing scales from Aztec, Tang Dynasty (Chinese), and Arab Cultures. Jonathan says that he has taken some liberties with the tuning. The harp is played by the public with a 4´x5´ screen designed by head Artist Doris Bittar, which is pulled across the instrument creating melodies as the attached plectrum strikes the strings. Some of you may have seen the instrument as it was displayed at the California Center for the Arts in the "Leveled" exhibit last year from August 14th to the end of the year. Doris also designed the pattern of the instrument which was constructed by master woodworker Patrick Edwards. Jonathan created the acoustic sound and tuning design. Jonathan's performance was Thursday July 07.

Diffusion Limited Aggregation (DLA) in 3D

These are really stunning computer generated pictures of fractal-like 3D structures constrained by 3D shapes. See Paul Bourke's site at http://paulbourke.net/fractals/dla3d/