Representing Marine Diversity

I've been electronically cataloguing hypo-trochoid patterns. They remind me of Ocean dwelling organisms, corals and microbes. When I use a spirograph set, I think about nothing but the process of making every possible drawing I can from it. This has become an obsession. After drawing each pattern by hand, I transfer the data into pixel and vector files. Then I consider ways to create artworks from them, worthy of the visual sources that originally inspired me.

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Adding some subtle colouring and hue enhancements

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Benthic Geometry - Playlist

Please watch in HD. Further experimentation animating digital hypo-trochoid data

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Hypo-trochoid experiments - Playlist

Please watch in HD Animated hypo-trochoid data - Composition 1.0 Audio: Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsalm

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another geome study. I can imagine what these would look like printed onto acetate, or laser engraved onto black glass. what a treat

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A little pink experiment

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Geome study

linear ellipse. Sizes variant. Transformed around a fixed vertical point