Dance of the Rings: ⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤
An experimental collection, that allows me to find the perfect balance between amplitudes, distances, proportions, as I prepare for a color version, and an Opepen version.
Each attempt is worth being considered as "art", and each "artwork" is nothing but a step, an attempt.
In this collection, the speed of the animation slows down by e's 17th root (Neper's number = e = 2.71828), which is 1.06058806162573. This allows the viewer to appreciate the movements as they become faster and faster. As a result, the number of frames in a video will exponentially reach 310 images and the duration, 6.2 seconds by the end of the collection.
But why those references to Neper's number you may ask. Very simply because of its foundational role in Mathematics : as a way to express elegantly Complex Numbers, or in trigonometry, to build Sine / Cosine, which, in turn, are the building blocks of periodical functions, and thus, the essence of sounds, vibrations, waves . . .
There are a total of 9 items (the base, 7 rings, and 1 cylinder, that move in a sine wave fashion, with frequencies ranging from 1 to 8, which allows the viewer to visually experience what musical polyrythms, but also acoustic harmonics, feel like.
Each NFT is hand-tuned, in terms of the amplitude of movements, but also their relative phase, as I try to highlight interesting plays between light, and shadows.
The videos are generated by hand, one by one (no generative / automation).
50 FPS - 1024 x 1024 - MPEG-4 Blender 4.2 / 4.3 - no post-processing, no denoising