2-d 3-d

I found this image by Jan-Frederic Goltz on his website.

I love images that seems to create shapely forms within 2-d, especially forms that cannot be named, therefore seeming harder to achieve! Contour lines on maps things like that.



And of course this would include:

Whilst this apparently "presents exactly 100 successive pulses from the first pulsar discovered" the lines certainly create this rippling 3-d form.

I do wonder is the first piece would achieve the same effect in black and white. I think perhaps at some point all our brash vector images are going to start to look far too passe. In comparison, the Joy Division Unknown Pleasures Album artwork is timeless, it still looks very modern now and is somewhat a mediocre between the contour lines and the coloured work.