Artist's Statement
The fascinating mathematic structures, the patterns derived from nature related to the renowned Fibonacci, and the spiral Phyllotaxis.
The art embodied the uniqueness of our contemporary society, the diversity of every major metropolitan, and the multicultural of the entire United States of America as a whole. The sentiment of the individual art piece represents every single human on earth as each of us is uniquely beautiful. Using images of the succulent is a perfect metaphor because they are resilient, pleasing-looking, diverse, and even flourish on barren surfaces like high mountains or dry deserts.
I wrote a program for the computer to generate the 3D succulents following the mathematic patterns but also randomly creates unrepeatable shapes and distinctive features.
Technical Information
There are multiple procedures in the program and the core is the Fibonacci sequence generator procedure. It helps to generate a pattern of the sum of the preceding two number 0 and 1, which help to create the spiral Phyllotaxis.
A set of rule for the program to create succulent:
Randomly choosing a shape in the list (triangle, circle, cylinder, square)
An angle to turn between 30 and 150
Random scale for the succulent (2 <= scale <3)
Random colors with a certain limit
Random locations x and y
A few challenges posed during the making of the art are the limitations on the 3D; however, this is easily overcome by the natural sequence of Fibonacci.
NetLogo 3D Shapes
Circle
Triangle
Square
Cylinder
Early Stage Design
Results
Each time running the program, it successfully created beautiful artwork. It achieved uniqueness by not having any shape exactly the same as each other.
Run 1
Run 2
Run 3
Run 4
Run 1
Run 2
Run 3
Run 4
3D Printing
Using the built-in-button in the Interface, users can easily generate their own unique 3D model by clicking on it. Inside the folder where they saved the program will have an x3d file, using a compatible software to view.
This file later can be imported into a 3D printing software to customize and print out their own model.
Model 1
Model 2
Model 3
A Group of Models