MetamereHere is a more traditional style #KoruTawa, in a close to square format. Generated a month ago.
For last week's #CreativeCoding challenge topic of "cube", I coded up a simplified version of my #KoruTawa system in #p5js. It was really interesting to be able to play with it using an interactive sketch after working with the more static setup in Blender for so long. Since I set it up to respond to the window dimensions it made it a lot easier to debug. It gave me ideas on how I could fix some things in the Python version.
Here is an experiment I did for #MonochromeMarch (zine=ok). I took a #KoruTawa render and then applied two textural #WindsweptInfinity stills as partially transparent layers, one with the screen blend mode and the other as an overlay so it applied only to the light portions. It seems to work fairly well, though it was a challenge to balance the contrasting order and chaos. Next time I'll try starting with a smaller grid scale KoruTawa with larger shapes.
Here's a #KoruTawa for March #MonochromeMonday that I generated last week. Note that the grayscale outputs actually have a slight warm bias for the tones that are not pure black. The white is FFFCF1, and the black is actually #090909, so it reduces contrast just a bit to make things a bit easier on the eyes. I went with more of a sepia-tone feel without it being too noticeable, since the pure grayscale palette just felt a bit too cold to me.
Since I've been doing more #Monochrome photography lately, I think I will post some monochrome #KoruTawa pieces on each #MonochromeMonday for a while. This one from two years ago is titled "Particulate City"
I did some experimenting with #ImageManipulation in #Krita this evening. I took a #KoruTawa image I generated last weekend, trimmed strips out to make it narrower, resized, then applied an explode filter in Irfanview and pasted four copies of that back into Krita with soft light, overlay, lighten, and darken blend modes, and decreased the opacity of all layers. It created a surprisingly cool diffuse texture and gives the shapes some volume and glow.
"When Worlds Collide"
2023/11/20
it is a large grid #KoruTawa with square dots, no side dots, and two large slightly overlapping circular groupings that include positive or negative inside and exclude outside. Many mid-dot columns or walks filled in first, with one positive large dots column in ascending size, then scatter dot groups filled the rest. The rendered PNGs are 230 MP (yet under 2 MB), and the model is 11 MB uncompressed.
For my second #ArtForSale Friday post, let's go to the other extreme, where the smallest #KoruTawa grid sizes tend to be on the side of #minimalism. Simple geometric compositions instead of sprawling, dynamic, textural pieces. This one has the namesake elements of the Koru spiral abstraction that Gordon Walters originated and the Tawa seed ellipses and banded column elements that I created. I love how these few simple elements can combine in so many ways.
For the first of my #ArtForSale posts, I have #KoruTawa v28 2025-11-04 op.767. This one has several similar elements to the previous one, but a few prominent differences (see alt text for more). Please DM to buy my art so I can buy music on Bandcamp, as well as other necessities. This piece includes two 2:3 aspect ratio, 77.6 megapixel PNG images and a 3D model, 19 MB in total. They can work well displayed in various orientations, framed or as canvas prints.
Today I'll analyze a #KoruTawa piece I gave to my brother a couple of years ago in the alt text of the image, because five hundred characters goes by extremely quickly and I dislike having to use replies to fit what should really be a single post. Ahem. I will do a post of this project in this format every Friday as part of my year of daily art sharing since I have so many. The rest will be ones that are available for purchase.
