Innovations
Made with Lumos Pro fine-liner and brush-pen with coloured inks.
Made with Lumos Pro fine-liner and brush-pen with cyan, magenta, yellow and black inks.
Made with Lumos Pro fine-liner and brush-pen with opaque white ink on black chromolux paper.
With a slight alteration I produced the last two harmonograms in this series: these each have fourteen extremities, which means that the pendulum made fourteen separate circuits before returning to its original path.
I intend to develop and refine this technique of reconfiguring the lower weights: the possible permutations are endless.
The Golden Ratio
For this configuration of weights I introduced the concept of phi (the Golden Ratio, or 1 : 1.618…) into what was already a complex and chaotic system. This lead to some startling and unprecedented results.
If you look at the image to the left you will see that there are two weights suspended from the main pendulum where before there was one: the ratio of these weights to one another, in terms of both position and mass, is phi :
ab/bc = ø ; ac/ab = ø ; m1/m2 = ø.
This allowed me to produce a series of harmonograms each of which exhibit perfect rotational symmetry and an exquisite fluidity of line.
