Synapse Drip · generative art
Rainbow Tangle
Linked rings: 7 regular pentagons made of square bars, each at its own angle and turning slowly, are scattered through a ball so that they link through one another; the scene is ray-marched, the nearest bar gives each hit its colour round the rainbow, and the flat faces of the bars are lit from a key light and a fill.
Hearted by 1 person in the Gallery.
The mathematics
- The distance to a square bar is the largest of the absolute offsets in its two cross-section directions and beyond its ends, the max-norm, which is never larger than the true distance, so the march can never overshoot a bar.
In art
- The square-cut bars give every face its own shade, the faceted look of early computer graphics, where flat shading was cheap and crisp.
Made with Linked rings.
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