The Code ....

Ok so recently staying up last night I came across *insert dramatic mysteriously shocking music) the code. It was Eden ( a wildlife/science TV channel). It was really interesting, it explained that nature was lazy and would use the most efficient solution to fix its problems. This goes on about why bees use a hexagon as their honeycomb shape as it uses less wax than stacking together squares, and triangles. It talks about bubbles, which is surprisingly interesting to watch them change shapes. AND it also talks about art. Yes that's right, on a TV show dedicated to science documentaries and wildlife it talks about art. It looks as Pollock's work.
They have actually built a device that can replicate the work, and doing this they found something very interesting. Below in is the artist in question work, it looks messy right? Has no order... well actually, it does. Now if I remember this correctly (bear in mind it was past 12am when I watched this) you can take any small piece of say a snapshot of Pollock's work, and unless you can see the border you can't work out the scale of that "snapshot", there's a word for this but I can't remember it right this second. The property is known as fracture, here's the link to that little section. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDXMRN2IZq4&playnext=1&list=PL4ACDAE6F26557789&feature=results_video ... So yes art can have mathematical structure.

Also, it involves pixar. Edwin Catmull a computer scientist used maths much to my horror haha, to work out how to create natural looking mountains. In the end he sort of built a net of triangles that are so small you can't see them, and than they were built up and added that on to that rather than using giant large triangles and placing them in separately . He than went on to become the founder of PIXAR, which is still improving dramatically in leaps and bounds creating realistic looking worlds, my favourite being the ones featured in up. Although some of the animators actually did some exploration of they own and climbed up on to this flat top mountains, which was a long tough journey.


I want to say I will post something on my art blog, but my muse is running thing this week. There was also another piece of music but I can't remember it right now....