Owl King
March 27th, 2010
One of the thousands of images generated during development of the Faces of Chaos series, chosen for its subtle detail and evocative overall form. What do you see? An owl, spider, space ship… something else?
Faces of Chaos
After working with the equations in my Strange Attractors series for a few years, I began to wonder if there was a way to capture the nature of the system, visually. In other words, what is going on here at a higher dimension, at the “meta” level? These questions birthed the Faces of Chaos series, which visualize the system using a unique mapping of the Lyapunov exponent to the image plane. At a more subconscious level, the images and titles I chose from the myriad of possibilities evoke an almost mythological aura, with archetypes such as “king” and “warrior” emerging from the chaos.
Death Mask 1 & 2
March 27th, 2010
Two artworks created from thousands of individual “faces” during my exploration of Lyapunov space. With gaping, leering mouths and fractured skull-like forms, these images evoke tribal customs surrounding death or spiritual forces.
Chinese Warrior
March 17th, 2010
The “smiling face of a Chinese warrior” above his broad-shouldered armor, or a mustachioed warrior with a fanciful hat? Another artwork from my exploration of “Lyapunov space.”
Tiled Faces
March 17th, 2010
In my Faces of Chaos series, I seek to visualize a chaotic dynamical system, using a unique mapping of the Lyapunov exponent to the image plane. Tiled Faces is one result of this exploration, and its 1,024 images combine to reveal the “face” of the four-dimensional system’s chaotic behavior.
