About ‘Balloon Dog Supernova’ by Elke Stangl (elkement)
Spherical harmonic functions look like balloon dogs to me - at least the simpler ones! All those rounded lobes, pinched off in the center!
These functions are described by the distance of the balloon dog surface from the origin, as this "radius" varies with two angles - the co-ordinates of a point on the surface of a sphere.…
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Elke Stangl (elkement)
Elke Stangl (elkement) is an Austrian physics PhD working as an engineer. Her mathematical art is borne out of her life-long passion for the theoretical underpinnings of her craft. She is creating virtual three-dimensional structures from mathematical functions – digitally with code or with ruler and compass, using traditional techniques of descriptive geometry.
Her initial inspiration was Sir Roger Penrose’s book The Road to Reality, the hand-crafted drawings…
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