Artists

Curtis Palmer

Designer

Independent

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

clpalmer@shaw.ca

Statement

As a teen I skimmed Plato enough to acquaint me with the icosahedron. In my 20's I made physical models with paper, glue, sticks and ties and candle hot, pin welded straws. In the 1980's I began to digitize icosahedra as test cases for a laser cutting operation. The 90's offered up 1 steel and 1 gilt brass icosahedron and sets of 2D spline curves mappings that I call cyclons. In The 2000's I pursued 3d printing and ray traced rendering. In the 2010's it's rigorous blocking of orthoschemes, so I may efficiently animate my database of icosahedra. These 3 prints are the hypotenuses of 60 right handed icosahedral orthoschemes. They are self referentially textured by an icosahedral cyclon. As a whole - a domain of a point, a brane? - CLP

Artworks

Image for entry 'Icosahedral Bits Face On'

Icosahedral Bits Face On

12" x 12"

Digital Archive Print

2014

Icosahedral digitization version x. Sixty triangular faces defined by the origin, vertices and mid-faces of the icosahedron. The hypotenuse with texture map (colour, transparency and bump) derived from a spline curve map (cyclon) of an icosahedron, edge on . Camera is above an icosahedron's mid-face. 3 fold symmetry is made visible.
Image for entry 'Icosahedral Bits Edge on'

Icosahedral Bits Edge on

12"x12"

Digital Archive Print

2014

Icosahedral digitization version x. Sixty triangular faces defined by the origin, vertices and mid-faces of the icosahedron. The hypotenuse with texture map (colour, transparency and bump) derived from a spline curve map (cyclon) of an icosahedron, edge on. Camera is above an icosahedron's mid-edge. 2 fold symmetry is made visible.
Image for entry 'Icosahedral Bits Vertex On'

Icosahedral Bits Vertex On

12" x12"

Archive Digital Print

2014

Icosahedral digitization version x. Sixty triangular faces defined by the origin, vertices and mid-faces of the icosahedron. The Hypotenuse with texture map (colour, transparency and bump) derived from a spline curve map (cyclon) of an icosahedron, edge on. Camera is above an icosahedron's vertex. 5 fold symmetry made visible.