While I’m lecturing, enjoy these animated sculptures by John Edmark:
From Vimeo:
These 3-D printed sculptures, called blooms, are designed to animate when spun under a strobe light. The placement of the appendages is determined by the same method nature uses in pinecones and sunflowers. The rotation speed is synchronized to the strobe so that one flash occurs every time the sculpture turns 137.5º—the golden angle. If you count the number of spirals on any of these sculptures you will find that they are always Fibonacci numbers.
For this video, rather than using a strobe, the camera was set to a very short shutter speed (1/4000 sec) in order to freeze the spinning sculpture.
John Edmark is an inventor/designer/artist. He teaches design at Stanford University.
Visit John’s website here, and Vimeo site.
To learn how blooms are made visit here.
And more about the Pier 9 Artist in Residence program here.
Cinematography and editing by Charlie Nordstrom
Music – “Plateau” by Lee Rosevere.
h/t: Grania
Very nice, but now I need help uncrossing my eyes.
Your eyes will straighten out once you focus them through your visual cortex to get the feedback loops closed.
Very, very cool!
Very interesting. What’s also interesting is that PCC(E) posts these *after* the visit to the dope shoppe. A coincidence, I’m sure.
Those remind me of the giant diatom sculptures that are on the campus of Portland State. Did you see them? Are they still there?
Very cool. It must have taken meticulous work to design the molds and make the shapes.
Pier 9 looks like an artists dream.
I get how the effect is done, but unweaving the rainbow of it does not detract in the beauty of it.
How awesome is man (sometimes).
Suprcallifrwgilisticexpialidocious
Beautiful