[Lab] More nerdy art at OAG - Robbin Deyo's Spirographs

[Jason Cobill]

   In case anyone was curious, I contacted the artist about her huge
Spirographs. :)
   As you can tell from her response I might have been my usual
overly-enthusiastic self. :) Her work is really cool, I can't help it.


*   Thanks for your enthusiastic response to my work, and thanks for
posting something about the show.   As for your questions - the paintings
are projected stills from a video that didn't work. As for laser cut gears,
I do have a few sets in different sizes that I have used for in-situ
pieces. *

   -Jason Cobill


On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Jason Cobill <jason.cobill at gmail.com> wrote:

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>    There's another great show going on at OAG called "Robbin Deyo - Still
> Moving", which is full of elaborate, large-scale drawings and paintings of
> Spirograph spirals. One of the pieces is a 4-foot stack of paper containing
> (at least part) of her attempt to draw the entire set of possible
> combinations using the standard gears.
>    She applies really delicate watercolours and punchy acrylics to
> large-scale drawings and the results are like stained glass windows for the
> Cathedral of Mathematics. :)
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>    I wonder how she's cutting the large-scale gears for her work, because
> I don't recall Spirograph releasing an 8-foot wide gear. :) Might be a CNC
> job, or a laser cutter with a really big bed. Or she might be tracing
> projections? Or even hand-cutting?
>    They're really big!
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>    The pieces are really beautiful and cool, but spirals are such a rich
> subject in science and math that I can't shake the feeling that we need to
> pair Robbin Deyo (an entire army of Robbin Deyos) up with some math/physics
> nerds who are really into Hypocycloids. From seashells to drainpipes,
> decaying planetary orbits and even the path of photons - spirals
> everywhere! So much to explore!
>    I'd love to see her process applied to really large n-body gravity sim.
> :) Or the spiral traces of subatomic particles. Break her out of her
> regular tessellating patterns with a bit of chaos and see what colours
> schemes she dreams up.
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> *(This is a gravity sim with 64 planetary bodies - Spirals! I love the
> braided binary orbits.)*
> ​
>    Another show worth checking out!
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>    -Jason Cobill
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