03 – MARCH – ContextFree

Context Free Art is a program that creates images from written instructions called a grammar. Context Free starts with a root symbol/shape and use the grammar rules to elaborate this into a sentence of symbols/shapes. http://www.contextfreeart.org/

089

03-30

March 30 – 089

ContextFree. Penrose tiling #5. Last tiling – last day of ContextFree too! I have to take an executive decision – tomorrow is march 31st. I don’t want to start another CF series just for just one plate… Calendars don’t have to live by our arithmetic rules I guess.

085

03-26

March 26 – 085

ContextFree. Penrose tiling #1

Penrose tilings are named after mathematician Roger Penrose. In its simplest form, it is a set of 36- and 72-degree rhombi, with “matching rules” forcing the rhombi to line up against each other only in certain patterns. This type of tiling has a five-fold symmetry that has been used to explain the structure of certain “quasicrystal” substances. ( David Eppstein, UC Irvine)

080

03-21

March 21 -080

ContextFree. Snowflake #1.

Snowflakes are at once geometrically simple and incredibly intricate. They have captivated scientists since the early 1600s. The seminal mathematical paper on snowflakes was written by H. von Koch in 1904. A 2D snowflake script is a fairly simple set of commands. However the CF program was able to develop16,124,312 shapes in this particular iteration.

I was wondering do snowflakes have to be white? The question that came up then was – why is the object starting to look like a molten bronze artifact from an ancient civilization?