Hippocubism

I recognized the similarity and I was stupefied: the tree and the fire - I mean – both rooted in the ground and both propagating in the space around.

Then I realized that I love trees: from the spanning tree to the pyramidal neuron, their shapes share the same archetypal symmetry among roots and branches.

Hippocubism is a current in the recently proposed movement Cubism in Computational Biology [1]. Hippocampus: a virtual space where the Nature, our Great Mother, presents some of her masterpieces. My mind is in continuous search for biological patterns and the elegance of pyramidal neurons embedded in the hippocampus was irresistible.

Here, I started from a model of a pyramidal CA3 neuron (see previous post) and following the same methods presented in [1] I algorithmically forged the following computational artworks.

Firing Neuron burns in the desert sunset || Petals Falling from a Blooming Tree