Sand art of "Sisyphus III"
Amazing stuff...
I found out about this incredible art via Michael Welland's book Sand: the Never-Ending Story, which I just finished reading. [The book is superb, and everyone should read it, but more on that later.] For the moment, just watch this incredible thing. This is art, real art: simple in the extreme on one hand (a ball rolling through sand), but complex in the extreme on the other hand (the two dimensional images that emerge and evolve over time are terrific), and its underlain by some reasonably complex computing. Here's artist Bruce Shapiro talking about his work:
Like what you see? Then download this video and watch it. Showing the "Sisyphus III" sand plotter in time lapse photography set to music, you really get a sense of what this thing is capable of. ...Mind-blowingly cool.
I found out about this incredible art via Michael Welland's book Sand: the Never-Ending Story, which I just finished reading. [The book is superb, and everyone should read it, but more on that later.] For the moment, just watch this incredible thing. This is art, real art: simple in the extreme on one hand (a ball rolling through sand), but complex in the extreme on the other hand (the two dimensional images that emerge and evolve over time are terrific), and its underlain by some reasonably complex computing. Here's artist Bruce Shapiro talking about his work:
Like what you see? Then download this video and watch it. Showing the "Sisyphus III" sand plotter in time lapse photography set to music, you really get a sense of what this thing is capable of. ...Mind-blowingly cool.
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