Process
Physics, upon physics.
A work is the trace of a system in motion. Two layers of physics give that trace its form.
00The choice
One hundred thousand candidate orbits are scored; one is chosen.
One of 100,000 candidate orbits. Number 77,741 was chosen.
№ 031 · Borda count · chaos weight 1 · equilibrium weight 5.843 · aesthetic 1 · score 1.075
One hundred thousand candidate orbits were simulated and ranked by a Borda count; the published number is the one it chose.
01Light
First, an orbit.
Three bodies respond to one another through gravity. Their evolving trajectories become the paths from which the composition is drawn.
02Ink
Then, a current.
Those trajectories carry pigment into a fluid simulation governed by the Navier–Stokes equations. Currents stretch, fold and diffuse the ink across a warm paper ground.
03The spectrum
Through the spectrum
The published ten-second spectral sweep carries the work’s palette through visible light, 380 to 700 nm.
·Ways of seeing
One identity. Many expressions.
Light and Ink are different renderings of the same generative work. Films reveal the process; stills preserve its final trace. New expressions can join this family without creating another token.
Enter this work · № 031