Abdalla G. M. Ahmed
Since my first Bridges in 2011 I became very enthusiastic to the
conference, contributing a paper each year (except 2012). Since 2014 I
have also contributed one or more artwork each year. I believe in the
mission of Bridges conference, connecting not only math, arts, and
music, but also cultures. In the Bridges community I sometimes present
myself as possibly the only representative of Africa, which is
unfortunately under-represented. I hope to see more people joining the
Bridges community from my beloved content, but until then I am
committed to fill the gap.
I am specially interested in Algorithmic Art. Most of my Bridges paper
are devoted to algorithmic weaving design, and most of my artworks are
monochrome and abstract.
This artwork is inspired by my last previous Bridges paper about
image weaving, where I presented a modular approach that replaces
pixels of a 9-grades greyscale image by 4x4 blocks monochrome
blocks from a 256 palette. A close up of the illustrated image in
the paper revealed interesting patterns that appear coherent but
mysterious. A possible explanation is the low
information-theoretic entropy of the blocks, since 50% of the
pixels are fixed.
To render this idea into an artwork I wanted to include all the
256 blocks, over an even distribution of grey levels: the average
grey should stay 50% everywhere. I used a blue-noise dither matrix
for distributing the blocks that were ordered by darkness. The
result resembles square-Kufic script.