“The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.”
Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) French mathematician.
Everywhere one looks in nature, there is beauty. This beauty derives from nature’s use of proportions and ratio to grow and develop in patterns, within pattern and repetition, there is beauty. "Where there is matter, there is geometry," [Kepler, 1990]. Nature can create items of extreme beauty, using the simplist of building blocks. The aim of this piece is to mirror nature's use of simple items in the creation of beauty, using generative code and maths.
This piece aims to demonstrate the beauty which can arise from simplicity when combined with maths. To many viewers, maths may have never been seen as a thing of beauty or artistic merit. Maths is however very creative and often beautiful, with many “artists” aligning themselves more with mathematicians than their more traditional peers. “By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics” [Escher – 1991]
This piece is best viewed whilst listening to Bucephalus Bouncing Ball by Aphex Twin - on repeat.