P-159-N/R801 by Manfred Mohr - bitforms gallery

P-159-N/R8011974

Plotter drawing on paper23.75 x 23.75 in / 60.3 x 60.3 cm

Manfred Mohr introduced the cube into his work as a fixed system with which signs are generated in the Cubic Limit work phase. In the second part of this series (1976-1978), cubes are divided into two parts. They are projected into two dimensions and clipped by a square window. By rotating both parts of these cubes in small but different increments, long sequences of images are developed. This algorithm uses the twelve edges of the cube as an alphabet. The number of lines slowly decreases towards the sides of the outside square in a statistical procedure, while the cube slowly rotates.

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A Formal Language: Celebrating 50 Years of Artwork and Algorithms