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Physicist exploring her creative side. Creating art with math, code, pencils, digital pen. Portfolio = my stuff here without reblogs: #portfolio Main blog: elkement.art Prints: elkement's INPRNT gallery

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Orbitals and towers - framed prints on INPRNT:

https://www.inprnt.com/frames/elkement/

Visualizing spherical-harmonic functions by drawing meshes of contours on them (with custom code).

Some blog posts about the evolution of these mathematical artworks!

It started with a warp core explosion - a tower with a spherical-harmonic base:

Motivational Warp Core Explosion

I know, I need to get back to art based on physics! But I am taking a detour! I am collecting ideas and building blocks – art based on mathe

Then I used the simple functions as building blocks of crazier ones:

Frozen Harmonics Floating in Deep Space

First, I saw only boring structures. Now I am overwhelmed with choices! It took me a while to find a strategy for harvesting the so-called s

Then I saw a Balloon Dog Supernova, and seeded Found Poetry from it:

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more energy than neon burning an annihilation signature What is the source of the neutron star "kicks"?

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Balloon Dog Supernova

Do you see it? Balloon Dog Supernova, code art by elkement 2024.Drawing contour lines on the surfaces that represent spherical harmonic func

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Poinsot's Pixel Spaceship 4

Physics of the gyroscope, turned into delicate spaceships.

Code-generated art (not AI), printed on a shiny sheet of metal!

Metal print available on INPRNT ...

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/elkement/poinsots-pixel-spaceship-4/metal/

... together with lots of other options: Fine art print, canvas, acrylic, photographic, poster, art cards, mini-prints:

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Fine Art Prints

In the past months I have focused on my merch store, but finally I managed to update also my INPRNT gallery!

INPRNT is known for the high quality of their fine art prints on thick archival-grade paper, and they also offer prints on canvas (with a white edge), metal, and acrylic.

My INPRNT store:

https://www.inprnt.com/profile/elkement/

INPRNT is shipping from the US! In times of tariffs, I use a different platform in the EU:

Alle Kunstdrucke von elkement | Art Heroes

elkement Kunst auf Leinwand, Poster oder Dibond. Sieh dir alle Premium-Wandbilder von elkement hier an. Kostenloser Versand.

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Postal Scales

My next technical still life: Originally drawn with brown colored pencil on pale green cardboard; then digitally inverted.

The original drawing:

Reference has been this public domain museum exhibit photo:

Hanson postal scale | Smithsonian Institution

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Magnetic Compass - Technical Still Life Practice

I know it looks eerie, but this is not AI :-)

I have drawn this freehand on paper, using an inverted photo as a reference:

Colored pencil on some pale green cardboard (office supply left over from a more analog era).

Public domain reference photo - museum exhibit:

Generating Unit, Magneto Compass, Earth Inductor, Wiley Post Crash | Smithsonian Institution

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Temperature Waves Hoodie

My first physics art hoodie! Decorated with a stylized plot of the temperature distribution beneath the surface of the earth during the four seasons, plus relevant equations.

Merch for fans of ground source heat pumps, heat transfer, or beautiful mathematical symbols in general! :) Digital design - freehand drawings (also the equations), embroidered by a print-on-demand company. Avaialble in 5 colors:

Temperature Waves - Embroidered Physics Art Unisex Premium Hoodie

Super soft, plush, heavy hoodie with embroidered physics diagram and equations: for fans of heat pumps, thermodynamics, or simply beautiful

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Temperature Waves

Watercolor on watercolor paper, glued to a stretched canvas and varnished!

Heat equation, definition of diffusity, and temperature distribution in the four seasons (Northern hemisphere).

Energy is stored in summer - and available to be utilized by heat pump in winter.

Physics background:

Temperature Waves and Geothermal Energy

Nearly all of renewable energy exploited today is, in a sense, solar energy. Photovoltaic cells convert solar radiation into electricity, so

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New merch just dropped!

I've added the men's cut version to the "negative geometric art" T-shirt collection in my physics art shop! Each shirt is based on an involved construction created with pencils, ruler, and compass on paper.

Store link:

T-Shirts | elkemental Force Store

Art Inspired by Physics - created with code or with pencils

Each product page has a link to a blog post with more details about the science/geometry background and the artistic process.

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Hi! ^^ hope everyone is having a good portfolio day so far! 

I am an Artist/Animator/Designer/Draftsman. I work primarily in 3d/digital in blender, and clip studio paint. I also do vectors and some, but less traditional art, and cyanotype printing.

My main themes are pulpy retro scifi, and anime, both original and fan-art. 

I also do lettering/font design. and music. you can see more about those at the links in my bio

I am currently available for commission, (contact; [email protected] )

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"Circles to Lines (2026)"

... is done! It is finally also a canvas print!! Originally also created on canvas ... which has been a challenge as I gessoed and sanded this canvas, and watercolors do not stick to this surface at all!

As usual: Traditional descriptive geometry - "how we did 3D before software" :) This is about stereographic projection (circles through the North Pole onto lines), displayed using orthographic projection.

I took the photo for the print after varnishing the original canvas. Varnishing has been necessary to make the watercolor pigments adhere to the canvas. The upside of using this difficult drawing surface: Colors stay way more vibrant!

Available in three sizes; the smallest one is the same size as the original drawing / painting:

Circles to Lines Geometric Art Canvas Print

Canvas print created from a photo of the original drawing (2026) on canvas. The sides of the thick canvas frame show the artwork mirrored an

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Drawing With Code

What does it even mean? I see two main ways of drawing with code: 1) going for a representation of a thing you have in mind, or 2) using an

I have written something about drawing with code!

New project: Literally draw with code in the same way I use pencil, compass, and ruler, following the rules of descriptive geometry.

And: Only use bare C (standard C library), no graphics libraries or frameworks.

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Circles to Lines - still work in prgress

It is taking ages, but some day it wil be completed! Current stage: Having retraced all the pencil construction lines with a tiny brush. Stereographic projection, visualized using orthographic projection. Circles through the North Pole are projected onto lines.

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"Circles to Lines", work in progress.

Via stereographic projection, circles on a sphere containing the North Pole are projected onto lines in the equatorial plane. Graphite pencil construction and watercolors on gessoed and sanded canvas - a difficult surface to use with watercolors as the water is not absorbed at all. I am using the top view and side view to construct the "3D" view from a different perspective, using the techniques of traditional descriptive geometry. So, technically this is "orthographic projection of stereographic projection". Here is a earlier photo, from the construction stage:

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On Descriptive Geometry

I keep forgetting I am writing for an international audience here! Having referred to Descriptive Geometry (DG) often, I doubt that everybod

I am thinking about Descriptive Geometry today - its history, culture, my approach, and my pleasure in practicing an allegedly outdated craft!

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A Signal From 1987 // 2025

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Photography by Peter Solarz

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I am using traditional descriptive geometry and watercolor pencils to turn functions used in physics into cathedrals from stained glass!

These are mockups of canvas prints from the original artworks (on paper or canvas) - sized according to the sizes of the originals.

The sides of the canvas prints show the artwork mirrored and (manually) distorted. No AI used anywhere in the process!

All seven are available in my store now:

Canvas Prints | elkemental Force Store

Art Inspired by Physics - created with code or with pencils