This artwork is featured in The City Art Exhibition, from 3 to 30 September 2018, at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
This is a collaborative work with Hippocates Cheng, a Hong Kong composer and an overtone singer. In April 2018, we discussed the potential of exploring mathematical beauty in music. He shared his composed music score “Concerto for Orchestra: What Could I Leave for the World” with me, and I decided to visualize this piece of music with its underlying mathematical beauty through animation.
The final animation, however, goes beyond mathematical beauty and becomes much of an artwork out of imaginary, fantasy, and my obsession over Polyhedra in the mathematical geometry context. It can be seen as a continuation work of my exhibition 璀璨數學之美 Shining Beauty of Mathematics back in year 2016 in CUHK. This time, however, instead of creating scriptures of polyhedra, I decide to bring the polyhedra to live and dance according to their internal coherence with the music rhythm. This animation is about the dramatics between polyhedra. As such, it is named "Polyhedramatics - The Dance".
Making animation is completely exploratory as it is my first time doing so. Finally, I came across the solution THREE.js , which is a cross-browser Javascript Library and API used to create and display animated 3D computer graphics in a web- browser. Learning much from the library's official examples , I was able to program the unrealistic scenes that flash on my mind while I was reading the music score and listening to the music piece .
This repository is all the code that creates the animation. The code was much messy, but the result is fantastic (check this link and click the "Play" button). My highest gratitude to WebGL!