Melting
A zoetrope on a giant humming top playing with your imagination.
- Click here for the videolink on YouTube -
Melting is a zoetrope with a repetitive animation of floating patterns of drops on
the surface of a giant humming top (diameter 75cm).
The drops are 3D printed on the surface of the humming top,
following spiral patterns based on the Fibonacci arrays and
phyllotactic spirals, also known as the Golden Ratio from nature.
The animation is created by your imagination due to the rotating of the spinning top
and lighting the spiral patterns with strobes.
With the animation the top seems to melt and flow.
Inspiration
The animation is inspired on the zoetrope, rotating wheel-spoke patterns, Fibonacci arrays and
phyllotactic spirals from nature.
Zoetrope
A zoetrope is a historical kind of animation. It's a repeating, turning and historic toy,
like a humming top. The pictures in the drum will give an animation while watching through the fissures
in the drum.
With wheel-spoke patterns a toy top seems to change in direction of rotation while slowing down in speed.
While changing the amount of spokes along the radius of the toy top the direction of rotation even seems to
alternate with the radius.
This can be seen in the a small demo using the following youtube-link:
- Click here for the videolink on YouTube -
Spiral-shapes from nature and Fibonacci array's
Fibonacci array's treats structures and relations of spiral shapes in nature, the so called
phyllotactic spirals, and also known as the Golden Ratio, see the picture of the coneflower.
The coneflower is formed by spirals
in two different directions. Each direction has a certain amount of spirals, these amounts of
spirals always have a determined relation to each other, following the so called Fibonacci array's.
These spiral structures are the basis of the animation on the surface of the giant humming top.
Floating drops
The mathematical Fibonacci array's and the phyllotactic spirals give the basis for the patterns
on the surface of the humming top. Drops follow these patterns so that the surface seems to
flow or seems to melt. Two different patterns are integrated by playing with the
amount of array's and spirals so that the patterns seem to flow along each other.
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Melting
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Melting
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