“The Quantum Mandala.” project
After the creation of the eye-pleasing “The Math Neon” collection, I continued to modify the code and try different rendering technics. And suddenly stumbled upon something that left me speechless and I got lost in time for several hours. I called this collection “The Quantum Mandala.”
I slightly changed my code to draw not continuous lines but dotted lines. And increased the size of dots to make them appear like small circles of pure colors. Then the magic of additive color blending mode came. Because additive color blending increases the brightness of spots when spots overlap each other, this made the next effect — the more spots overlap each other, the more color is closed to bright white.
A bit of documentation from Microsoft on additive blend modes in SkiaSharp: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user-interface/graphics/skiasharp/effects/blend-modes/separable
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I used cyan, magenta, and yellow colors as start and stop colors for linear gradient. These colors made the whole trick. Because the drawing function makes higher plots density in the center of the drawing field, fewer plots on edges, and has a gradient changing from cold cyan to warm yellow colors, it makes an impression of a blast with a hot center and cold edges.
When I look closely at these artworks, I see quants, elementary particles dancing, colliding, and spinning in a quantum vortex. It’s like seeing how the mass and the energy are weaving the fabric of the Universe. There are symmetry and asymmetry in this work. With such pure and vibrant colors, I literally can feel the heat and radiation in the middle of the particles’ collision. Can be staring for hours at these pictures and still don’t get bored.
It looks especially good on a larger display with good colors(IPS matrix). I have my 27" HP E273Q, not the topmost display, but after a bit of tweaking, it amazes me with colors and brightness.
