Art & Ideas of Charles Csuri

Intersecting Planes

admin — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:20:42 +0000

Sometimes I prefer the mix of my traditional background as a painter and my experience with the computer. I like to think of my brush marks as a touch of humanity emerging from another universe. The overlapping planes enhance the quality of space and depth. Random elements are designed into the algorithms which create [...]

Lines in Space, 1996

admin — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:36:09 +0000

I actually first thought of the idea of lines in space in 1966. My retrospective exhibition at Siggraph 2006 displayed a drawing I made which illustrated the notion of flying through a drawing. Even in my early plotter drawing days I was dreaming about three dimensional space. But it was thirty years before I realized [...]

N-Spaces

admin — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:43:36 +0000

Cezanne, Picasso and others have made definitive statements about the concept of space. There seems to be nothing new. Is this really true? I still like experimenting with spatial representation. Simple techniques from computer graphics were used to create this picture. In another mode it is a single frame from an animation sequence. [...]

Cubic Space

admin — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:18:14 +0000

It’s interesting to learn that Picasso’s cubism was strongly influenced by the French mathematician Maurice Princet. The idea of cubism came from Princet who talked to Picasso and his inner circle. He introduced them to the fourth dimension and n-dimensional geometry. Also important to note that X-rays were seen by artists for the [...]

Lines in Space

admin — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:01:51 +0000

I did this image about 12 years ago. Its a frame from an animation. The head of Nefertiti is represented as solid and line forms. Lines are in 3d space and they reflect light from the lighting model. Copies have been made of the same data. They are all the same size. My interest was in [...]