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Emergence: Imbalance, Order, Growth by santiago v lombeyda Polybanner print (3) 24"x48" © 2006Continuous spiral lines jumping paint edges, depicted using series of algorithmically pre-rendered 3d spheres.  absract | There is a duality in nature between waves and particles, between the discrete and the continuous. This artwork presents a carefully crafted, mathematically based, drawn spiral, using a continuous sequence of individually rendered spheres. The artwork also presents the duality between order and chaos. It allows the viewers emotional and intellectual perception to focus on the mathematically generated spiral line, or to rather focus on the mania of the space as a whole. technically | A small set of spheres were pre-rendered using a purely algorithmic/parametric approach in order to serve as atomic elements for the rendering. Then the spirals were drawn using these pre-rendered maps as 3d sprites on a 2d canvas with a depth mask. This allowed for lighting conditions to be captured on the original rendered spheres, and then simply be reused throughout the fast sprite like sequencing of the 3d elements. |