Playing around with patterns. #dailysketch #circles #spirals #penandink #seashells

spring is largely spirals #fern #light #plants #spirals
https://quix.pics/2025/04/spring-is-largely-spirals/

Presenting at Motto Berlin in 2023, (before the boycott), on my book Ricochet - Cultural Epigenetics and the Philosophy of Change, Ljä Forlag (2021). I also presented on #UFO aka #UAPs the #goldstandard #cryptofascism and #libertarianism
The week prior to the talk I found a plaster model of an #ionic column that was a great prop for talking about #spirals and #interdimensional #travel

core—Atlanta, GA (2018)

#fineartphotography #architecture #architecturephotography #atrium #johnportman #skeletal #modernarchitecture #interior #core #geometry #spirals #complex #concrete #hotel #fujifilm #fujixseries

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Colors and spirals

#colorful #lights #lighting #neon #led #tree #plant #spirals #spirograph #photography #art #artwork

It's a psychedelic sea witch circus by the seashore! 🎪🌊 Set of 5 pin buttons with twisted spirals and stars.

We've got pink and blue cotton candy colors and sea witch style shades of green, purple, and blue. This kaleidoscope star design was created from an image of the ocean.

#SeaWitch #Seashore #Spirals #SpiralArt #KaleidoscopeArt #StarArt #OceanArt #Pins #PsychedelicArt #Psychedelic #Strange #Weird #Spiral #Trippy #TrippyArt #Kaleidoscope #Kaleidoscopic #BeachArt

Perspective view of #scroll #scaffolding to create #secondaryCurves from #primaryCurves. See https://pixelfed.social/p/Splines/793597613908557570 for backstory.

Green rectangles M, N, P, Q, and R are shown with orange #volute #spirals non-uniformly scaled for their respective frames. Original spiral inside M is unchanged.

To reduce clutter, I show only two sides and two primary curves, F2-R2 and F3-R3. Neither of these curves touches any of the volutes at any point, but they are used as #walkingSticks to create the surfaces which help us locate the tangent curves.

To accomplish that, first locate all tangent points for orange spirals and their respective green frames. I labeled those for the largest spiral in an earlier post as T1 through T6. Here, I show only T2 and T3. The other points of tangency for the top and right sides can be seen if you follow the thick green lines. I didn't label them to reduce clutter, but each endpoint and each kink is a point of contact and tangency between a spiral and its frame.

Our goal is to shift F2 to T2 and F3 to T3, with similar shifts at each point of tangency on the green line.

To do that, #project the green line through T2 on the top surface to get the magenta curve on top. Think of the green line as a thin "rope" on which you shine a bright light from top to get the magenta line on the top surface. Both, the green and magenta lines touch the volutes, but neither touches the blue line at any point. Additionally, the top magenta line touches the top surface at EVERY point. When the blue line through F2 and the magenta line through T2 are viewed from a side, they are indistinguishable. We have found a secondary curve faithful to a primary curve.

Using the same approach, project the green "rope" passing through T3 on the side surface to obtain the secondary magenta curve passing through T3.

Blue primary curves and green straight lines have served their purpose and are no longer needed. Repeat for tangents on other sides.

#SeeFeelTouchHug

In both #art and #engineering, one must be able to both #see and #feel things that might not be there (yet).

We were able to "see" the outlines of the #scroll surface from #imageScans of #Vignola's sketches in https://pixelfed.social/p/Splines/793169876757012827 and https://pixelfed.social/p/Splines/793215298082967733.

Vignola's images are on a 2-dimensional surface, as are the outlines we extracted from them. We believe the scroll surface also exists, but it is not yet manifest in 3-dimensional space. So, like a visually impaired person, we try to "feel" our way to the scroll surface using the outlines as our #walkingStick.

This diagram is identical to that in https://pixelfed.social/p/Splines/793493316852849994 but with the rear ends of the horizontal #primaryCurves marked with R1, R5, and R3, which are paired with F1, F5, and F3, respectively.

We know that the scroll surface must #touch the tangent points T1, T2, and so on in front, as well corresponding tangent points in the rear (not shown here to reduce clutter).

In https://pixelfed.social/p/Splines/792906324854792619, I mentioned that a scroll starts with a volute in front and is #modulated by as many as six volutes of different shapes and sizes as it reaches the back, with the scroll surface tightly hugging the volutes at EACH contact point in ALL 3 dimensions. In other words, it is not sufficient for the scroll surface to "touch" the #volute #spirals just in the front and rear. It must also "hug" the intermediate #modulatingSpirals. I will first show this technique with 4 modulating spirals using rectangles M, N, P, Q, and R as their frame, and add more later on.

Intuitively, we know that if we use curve F3-R3 as our walking stick on the straight vertical extrusion of that curve, we will feel the scroll surface *somewhere* on that extrusion along every point from front to back. We can narrow it down further by excluding portions above and below as we approach rectangle R in the rear.

This is how a #medallion looks like when #extruded from the #primaryProfileCurves of the #IonicVolute #spirals.

These medallions are not part of the #IonicOrder and can be used as stand-alone pieces.

See https://pixelfed.social/p/Splines/792724394068855690 for how the curves are extruded.

Snails are one of my totems at the moment...a symbol of neuroqueering, of introspection and emergence, of keeping on and easing my own way. I try and stop to admire and engage with snails and their shells whenever I see one!

#Snail #SnailTotem #SnailMagic #SnailShell #Introspection #Emergence #Spiral #SpiralMagic #Spirals #Triskelion #Neuroqueering #Neuroqueer