Inverted Atoll (2024) Digital Arts by Elkement (Elke Stangl)

Fine art paper, 8x8 in
  • This work is an "Open Edition" Digital Arts, Giclée Print / Digital Print
  • Dimensions Several sizes available
  • Several supports available (Fine art paper, Metal Print, Canvas Print)
  • Framing Framing available (Floating Frame + Under Glass, Frame + Under Acrylic Glass)
  • Artwork's condition The artwork is in perfect condition
  • Categories Geometric Geometric
Print size recommendation: Unfortunately I cannot upload this image file in its original size, due to ArtMajeur's image file size restrictions. I can only provide a 3600x3600 pixels file. I recommend printing it to maximum 30cmx30cm. A virtual three-dimensional structure built from mathematically exact diffraction curves. Created with JavaScript, based [...]
Print size recommendation: Unfortunately I cannot upload this image file in its original size, due to ArtMajeur's image file size restrictions. I can only provide a 3600x3600 pixels file. I recommend printing it to maximum 30cmx30cm.

A virtual three-dimensional structure built from mathematically exact diffraction curves. Created with JavaScript, based on threejs, no AI.

In the center of the structure is a hypothetical diffraction grating with a few slits.

I am inverting the pure spectral colors. I do not simulate the diffraction patterns as you would see them – just blurry stripes of colors. Drawing on the physics of diffraction allows me to use vibrant colors that also make sense and not only an arbitrary choice for visualization. Showing a peak where the center of a stripe would be in an experiment 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.

It is an "atoll" – I completed the circle, so white light would hit the grating from two directions, 180° apart.

(This description has been created in English and might be translated automatically.)

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elkement is crafting virtual sculptures with code (no AI!) and with pencils - structures based on mathematical functions. Her art is based on and inspired by physics, engineering, and tech. Inspired by the aesthetics [...]

elkement is crafting virtual sculptures with code (no AI!) and with pencils - structures based on mathematical functions. Her art is based on and inspired by physics, engineering, and tech. Inspired by the aesthetics of vintage patent drawings and by Sir Roger Penrose’s handcrafted sketches, elkement is searching for the nexus of science and art.

elkement enjoys spotting the uncanny in the allegedly simple and mundane. Having created virtual three-dimensional structures with code, she is always searching for an unusual perspective to challenge preconceived notions. She often juxtaposes her visual art with her Found Poetry when she presents her art (at elkement.art).

Recurring motifs in elkement's digital art are diffraction patterns. Since early childhood, elkement had been fascinated by the pure spectral colors of the rainbow and by the physics underlying their creation. Forming structures from diffraction patterns that are both based on exact math and that resemble the patterns you actually see encapsulates the beauty of the phenomena as everybody can experience them, as well as the beauty of the underlying math. 

elkement is a physicist by training who fondly remembers her high school classes in descriptive geometry and fine art.

(In case you read this in a language other than English, it is an automated translation.)

This gallery profile was in March 2022. Profits for artworks created in 2022 go to Ukraine aid - to 'Cards for Ukraine' - a small, transparent organization helping Ukrainian refugees in Austria. 

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