Strobe Animated Sculptures

[93Regina]

Blooms are 3D printed sculptures designed to animate when spun under a
strobe light. Unlike a 3D zoetrope, which animates a sequence of small
changes to objects, a bloom animates as a single self-contained
sculpture. The bloom’s animation effect is achieved by progressive
rotations of the golden ratio, phi (?), the same ratio that nature
employs to generate the spiral patterns we see in pinecones and
sunflowers. The rotational speed and strobe rate of the bloom are
synchronized so that one flash occurs every time the bloom turns
137.5º (the angular version of phi).* Each bloom’s particular form and
behavior is determined by a unique parametric seed I call a phi-nome
(/fi nom/). -John Edmark