SERIES G // Objects

Station

€39

A hexagonal world in blue light, with an amber ring of dust and moons at the edge of its orbit.

Colour

OriginalInk

Format

Unframed printFramed print

Size

30 × 40 cm45 × 60 cm

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About the piece

Worlds made of particles. Millions of points of light build a planet with a hexagonal shell, a ring of dust and orbits with moons, as seen by an instrument on a passing ship.

Drawn in code from seed: 00008
Series: Objects
Variant: Object
Palette: Ember

Sizing

30 × 40 cm (12 × 16 in) or 45 × 60 cm (18 × 24 in), with a white border around the picture. Framed prints come in a black or natural wood frame (12 mm wide) with plexiglass, ready to hang.

Print & materials

Fine art matte paper (200 gsm) at 300 DPI, made to order. Every size is rendered natively - lines stay razor-sharp even at the largest size.

Shipping & payment

Free shipping worldwide. Every print is made to order within a few business days and shipped worldwide, packed to arrive flawless. You see the delivery estimate for your country when you order.

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Fine art paper

200 gsm enhanced matte

Printed on thick uncoated art paper at 300 DPI. Rich colour, razor-sharp lines, no glare.

Real wood frames

Black or natural wood

Wooden frame, 22 mm deep, with plexiglass that is lighter and safer than glass. Arrives ready to hang.

Made to order

Free shipping worldwide

Each print is made for you when you order and packed to arrive flawless, wherever you are.

The story

A sphere cannot be covered with hexagons alone: it always takes exactly twelve pentagons, as on a football. The rule holds for Goldberg polyhedra of 1937 and for the shells of many viruses.

MATHEMATICS

The maths behind the picture

Every piece is computed, not drawn. These are the real equations and numbers from the program that made this exact piece.

Equations

x² + y² + z² = r²x' = f·x / (z + d)L(p) = Σ wᵢ

Parameters

Seed: 8
Camera: f = 1,25·min(W, H)

Measured while drawing

Particles: ≈ 2 000 000
Layers: 9

HISTORY

Where this idea comes from

1937
Michael Goldberg describes polyhedra made of hexagons and a few pentagons, the meshes we still use to cover a sphere.
1954
Buckminster Fuller patents the geodesic dome: a sphere built from a net of triangles and hexagons.
1983
William Reeves publishes his paper on particle systems, made for the "Genesis" effect in Star Trek II: a planet exploding into hundreds of thousands of points.
today
Film titles and science-fiction interfaces build worlds from particles and layers of data. This series does it in code, point by point.