Jordan Schettler
Inspired by Salvador Dali's fondness for catastrophe theory, I
created a 4D version of Dali's last painting. This was done by
resolving the singularities in the swallowtail and scaling
parameters very carefully in the resulting space curve so that a 90
degree rotation gives one an appropriate cubic S-curve. By layering
two copies of the space curve from different angles and
slanting/breaking the frame, we can get a 3D version of the painting
which looks like itself or its reflection from various perspectives.
Then a 4D rotation is applied and stereographically projected back
to 3D which creates a version of the painting that swims around
itself.