Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Week 2 Work

I have chosen to use the bismuth crystal (The metallic object) as my theme.

Sources:
Instructions on how to make a bismuth crystal: http://www.amazingrust.com/Experiments/how_to/Bismuth_Crystals.html

Stephen Wolframs: "A new kind of science" , looking at crystal formation:
http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/page-993 (Specifically the Hopper Crystals section).

This guy sells grows and sells bismuth crystals, and has a reasonable amount of information and samples:
http://www.bismuthcrystal.com/index.html

Images:
This image demonstrates the potential for colouring patterns as well as physical ones.

This image shows the extreme end of the erosion and combination of the formed geometry and the natural elements.

The potential for a high level of geometric accuracy is displayed in this artificially grown crystal.

This shows the potential for iterations within the crystal through a few simple changes to variables.

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