Manuel Diaz Regueiro

Statement

Last year, I presented a method for creating Menger-type figures that surpass the number of atoms in the Sun, yet only a minuscule fraction of these possess beauty. My fascination lies in beauty and how it can emerge from mathematical processes. Some algorithms excel at optimizing beauty, while others fall short. During my recent search for aesthetically pleasing outcomes, I discovered that only a tiny fraction of attempted algorithms achieve satisfactory results. It’s almost as if we’re seeking an elusive, intelligent algorithm—one that remains hidden, refusing to reveal itself. Despite the challenge, I continue to explore the abstract realm of beauty, even though I cannot fully articulate why or what I seek within it.

Artworks

In several Bridges I presented works with 3D pursuit curves such as Hurricane Sandy or Sea of Tranquility and I wanted to resume the series making an opart with polyhedra. But when printing them there were problems, so I chose to make 2d opart tessellations The evolution of the world's climate is going from a few decades with stable climate and orderly storms, in their time, to a disordered and unpredictable climate, with strong changes. The artwork represents this change from left to right from ordered and equal tessellations to tessellations with alternating rotations. The base tessellation is hexagonal but, in the middle of the figure, its design changes, resulting in a different overall pattern.