Laurence Ward

Statement

I am a digital artist working in four domains: software-generated mathematical art, software-generated graphic design, image manipulation, and AI-generated imagery. The vast majority of my artwork is of the first variety, which I started creating in 2002. I use my electrical engineering (MIT & Georgia Tech), software engineering, visual arts, graphic design, and mathematics backgrounds to create products for myself which can be appreciated from intellectual, visual, and functional perspectives. I have been part of the Manayunk-Roxborough Art Center (Philadelphia, PA) visual artists co-op since the start of 2019, have permanent gallery space at Art on the Ridge in Roxborough (Philadelphia, PA), and have shown work in various galleries.

Artworks

Polygon trees are an infinite class of shapes that I invented, named after the algorithm I created to produce them. I describe the subset of polygon trees that look like this one (which not all do) as 2-dimensional images with embedded views of 3-dimensional shapes that appears as if they are projections/flattenings of 4-dimensional objects into 3-dimensional space. This image is one color variant of this particular shape.

The image is (a modification of) a Voronoi diagram using the Chebyshev metric as the distance function. I generated the Voronoi diagram, extracted its edge map, and subtracted the edge map from the Voronoi diagram. Doing so emphasizes the tile edges and darkens the tiles, giving an overall effect that looks like stained glass.