Wednesday 11 April 2018

Keeping To A Sphere Theme,

a tenuous link I know,


 but disco balls are spheres, here are some of the works of 24-year-old French student Étienne Jacob, 

who produces black and white GIFs that transform the curvature found in sinusoidal waves into a multitude of experimental forms, the animated spheres imitate the appearance of mutating microbes or fiery stars, 

yet tend to remain in a 2D plane,

Jacob recently experimented with programming his GIFs to appear more 3D, like in the work above which features a black sphere fighting to keep its position in a strong current, Jacob has published all of his animations to his Tumblr, Necessary Disorder since January 2017, and provides tutorials for how to create these GIFs on his blog, I did look and it looks remarkably difficult, but then when I encounter terms like, 'lerp(a,b,t) = (1-t)*a + t*b. when t=0 it returns a, when t=1 it returns b, when t is between 0 and 1 it returns a value between a and b linearly' I get an instant brain freeze, think eating ice cream too quickly! but the good news is that You can view more of the applied mathematics student’s work on his Twitter page. 


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