Digital art inspired by physics, created with custom code (No AI).
Mathematical functions used in physics turn into an ethereal structure. A fragile spaceport.
White light is turned into rainbow colors by a diffraction grating, a set of fine lines displaced by fractions of a millimeter.
The curves forming the Sparse Spectral Spaceport are built from the curves that describe how the intensity of colored, diffracted light changes with direction.
This dark image illuminated by the graphs of mathematical function is an amalgam of the phenomenon as you see it - diffracted, rainbow-colored light, and the underlying mathematics. Both are beautiful.
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…