I explore my custom color pallete i created using Matplotlib. The artworks are drawn from various physical phenomenon and made and plotted using python.
Truchet Tiles
The Truchet tiles are a form of tessellation used in various religious sites. The patterns are also understood and created in statistical mechanics using percolation theory. Wierd how an artist in 1700s gave rise to an idea in 1900s right?!
The idea for this artwork originated from the famous Rutherford's gold foil experiment. Although it isnt exactly that but i aimed to draw something similar using the same physical phenomenon. Here we distribute particles randomly over the sheet. We color the pixels according to the direction of the resulting electromagnetic force at that pixel. I also explore a cyclic version of the color palette in the second picture.
We calculate a Perlin noise field over a lattice. And then we slightly distort the using Domain warping. The color palette makes it look like golden lava. If you're high enough, you can even see some faces in there.
This one is my favourite because this produces great artworks at each iteration with the least computational power. This is a cellular automata with periodic boundary conditions and a specific evolution rule that gives us such intricate and symmetric patterns.
