Curtis Palmer
Artists
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
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Icosahedral Bits Face On
12" x 12"
Digital Archive Print
2014
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Icosahedral Bits Edge on
12"x12"
Digital Archive Print
2014
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Icosahedral Bits Vertex On
12" x12"
Archive Digital Print
2014