Sunburst Daisy (2012)

I've always been fascinated with the beauty of flowers. In late 2001 I picked up a procedural "organic modeler" called "Xfrog" that allowed you to model geometry with nodes much like Houdini. After a few crazy abstracts I attempted to create something "real" with it in early 2002. Of course I didn't want it to look too real. I wanted something that was both "cybernetic" and also natural. I'd studied the Fibonacci sequence a few years previous and wanted to incorporate the Golden Ratio that so often occurs in nature. I created three different different color variations my daisy model in Lightwave3D. The blue, or "Cobalt", version is the one I featured in my gallery. The "...View all