Daisies: Onyx Daisy (2021) by Ryan Bliss

I've always been fascinated with the beauty of flowers.

In late 2001 I picked up a procedural "organic modeler" called "Xfrog" that allowed you to model geometry with nodes much like Houdini. After a few crazy abstracts I attempted to create something "real" with it in early 2002.

Of course I didn't want it to look too real. I wanted something that was both "cybernetic" and also natural. I'd studied the Fibonacci sequence a few years previous and wanted to incorporate the Golden Ratio that so often occurs in nature.

I created three different different color variations my daisy model in Lightwave3D. The blue, or "Cobalt", version is the one I featured in my gallery.

The "Fire" and "Emerald" versions were also popular but have only been available in my "Pickle Jar" alternate gallery since 2002.

I returned to the project in 2012 for my "Sunburst" and "Inverse" versions.

In 2021 I created two new versions, "Iridescent" and "Onyx".