Lasercutting acrylic dust patterns

June 3, 2010

Etching acrylic produces a lot of dust:

The acrylic does interesting things with this dust creating fascinating patterns. I suspect some sort of electrical charge behaviour.

Kudos to the first to work out what I am cutting, and what is shown in the first image.


Tiling Typography

June 1, 2010


I have been playing with spreading text over tilings (for a paid maths art project!). Here are some studies based on some favorite typefaces. Click for higher resolution images.

Domino Tiling

Penrose Tiling


Ammann-Beenker Tiling


9-fold


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