{"id":5098,"date":"2022-10-15T14:18:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T14:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=5098"},"modified":"2025-10-02T15:10:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T15:10:40","slug":"complex-patterns-from-simple-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/complex-patterns-from-simple-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Complex patterns from simple patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div style=\"padding:100% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1123926784?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479&amp;autoplay=1&amp;loop=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"contemporary-art-complexity\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Complex patterns generated from simple patterns<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Digital animation &nbsp; &nbsp; 2015<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:36px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This work is a slow moving animation that repays close attention. At first you may think that the animation isn&#8217;t working, but after three or four seconds you will notice the changes that are occurring to the complex inner structure of the work.\u00a0<br>It is composed of overlapping identical grids of hexagons rotating relative to each other.<br>Simple algorithms make the black and white areas on the grids interact with each other so that, for instance, where a black area overlaps another black area they display as white and where a black area overlaps a white area they display as black.<br>The work is deliberately slow to give it a meditative quality. Other works in the same series are faster and give a more dynamic effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The work is part of a series called <i>In the Beginning<\/i> that explores the generation of complex patterns from simple patterns as a metaphor for the creation of complexity within the physical universe from what must by definition be the universe&#8217;s extremely simple beginnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complex patterns generated from simple patterns Digital animation &nbsp; &nbsp; 2015 This work is a slow moving animation that repays close attention. At first you may think that the animation isn&#8217;t working, but after three or four seconds you will notice the changes that are occurring to the complex inner structure of the work.\u00a0It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,117,10,86,107],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5098"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10338,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098\/revisions\/10338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}