Sunday, March 30, 2014

Fractal fringes and weaving webs

Found some fine examples of maths-inspired-art in this article. I am sharing here the two I liked most. Both of them have endless possibilities...

The fractal fringes in this composition were made using Photoshop and Mathematica.



This composition, called "Touch-graph" visualizes a computer program used to show connections between people, creating a web of connections, much like thread-work. Different colours symbolize different kinds of connections.



http://discovermagazine.com/mathart#.UyM4ElFdVuw

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

You can hear colours!

Turns out you can hear colours!

Neil Harbisson is a colour blind artist, who can see only in black and white. He has been wearing an external "electronic eye" for a decade. The electronic eye or "eyeborg", had a camera on one side, and audio implant on the other side. The camera would pick up colour frequencies, and convert them into distinct sounds for Neil to hear. 

According to Neil Harbisson, every colour has a different vibration, and over time, he got used to all the "notes" for various colours, and knew them without having to consciously think of them. He says he had even started dreaming in colour.





About a year ago, Harbisson found a doctor, and an anaplastologist, a specialist in prosthetics, who worked together to implant a chip inside his skull, that allowed him to "see" more intricate colours through bone vibrations. A wi-fi connector inside the chip even allows Neil to hear images sent from a mobile phone. So now the possibilities have suddenly opened up....he may be able to hear colours from different locations and even switch between live streams!




http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/10701562/Colour-blind-artist-unveils-worlds-first-eyeborg-device.html

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Tattoos create music

A tattoo artist has apparently created tattoos that make music. The project called "Reading my body" was created by Russian visual artist Dmitry Morozov. Robotic sensors that across the tattoo, and could be controlled manually as well, "read" it like sheet music.















http://www.cnet.com.au/instrument-reads-tattoos-as-sheet-music-339346901.htm

One can think of so many possibilities already....could music be similarly be converted into tattoos/ line drawings? 

And can paintings be converted into their musical interpretations?