Saara Lehto
As a mathematician and as an artist, I enjoy the actualization of an abstract idea (or it's shadow) into a physical form by creating, inhabiting or experiencing the idea inside myself or through what I am doing.
For this piece I was searching for a fractal shape that would have a distinctive self-similarity, yet be new and original as artwork. The work is inspired by stained glass rose windows.
The artwork depicts least common multiples (lcm) and divisibility. The visualization method by Saara Lehto, Anne-Maria Ernvall-Hytönen and Tommi Sottinen is called Divisible Skylines: for integers n and m, towers of height n are drawn on multiples of n and towers of height m are drawn on multiples of m until the towers meet at lcm(n,m).
The outside circle of the artwork shows the Divisible Skyline of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 with differently styled towers. Inside the circle, a necklace demonstrates the skyline of integers 3, 5, 6 and 10 with circles, and the background is made of overlapping circle skylines of integers 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8.
Divisible Skylines can be played with at:
https://octave-online.net/bucket~H1hqhpaB1cGjuzcAANezHq