A virtual three-dimensional structure built from mathematically exact diffraction curves. Created with JavaScript, based on threejs, no AI.
In the center of the structure is a hypothetical diffraction grating with a few slits.
I am inverting the pure spectral colors. I do not simulate the diffraction patterns as you would see them – just blurry stripes of colors. Drawing on the physics of diffraction allows me to use vibrant colors that also make sense and not only an arbitrary choice for visualization. Showing a peak where the center of a stripe would be in an experiment makes the artistic representation similar to the natural phenomenon but not exactly the same.
I look at the structure from different angles and at different distances. Like a space probe exploring a weird, colorful anomaly in space.
It is an "atoll" – I completed the circle, so white light would hit the grating from two directions, 180° apart.
(This description has been created in English and might be translated automatically.)
Elke Stangl (elkement) (she/her) 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.. Read more…