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Andy Lomas

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Andy Lomas

Lomas, Andy
Association for Computing Machinery — Aug 1, 2005
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Association for Computing Machinery
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Copyright © 2005 by ACM Inc.
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1-59593-101-5
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10.1145/1086057.1086108
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Contact Andy Lomas 2035 Talmadge Street Los Angeles, California 90027 USA +1.323.668.1486 andylomas@yahoo.com www.andylomas.com Andy Lomas Aggregation 2 15 inches x 15 inches Printed digital image ARTIST STATEMENT These works come from a fascination I have had for many years with the complexity of organic natural forms and their relationship to simple mathematical rules. Influenced by the work of D’Arcy Thompson, Alan Turing, and Ernst Haeckel, they study how the forms of plant and coral-like structures can be created by digital simulation using rules for flow and deposition. These sculptural shapes are created by a process of accretion over time. They are gradually grown by simulating the paths of millions of particles randomly flowing in a field of forces. Over time, they build on top of an initial simple seed surface to produce structures of immense complexity. E L E C T R O N I C A R T A N D A N I M AT I O N C ATA L O G art gallery Aggregation 4 15 inches x 15 inches Printed digital image Aggregation 9 15 inches x 15 inches Printed digital image E L E C T R O N I C

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