My weblog ELECTRON BLUE, which concentrated on science and mathematics, ran from 2004-2008. It is no longer being updated. My current blog, which is more art-related, is here.
Sat, 22 Jul, 2006
Orange Limits
I haven't been neglecting either art or calculus while I've been rambling on here about science, religion, and the mythic multiverse. I just finished a little orange painting which I present here. It's called ORANGE LIMITS, and it's acrylic on board, 11 inches by 14 inches.
As anyone who knows me knows, I really love orange. But orange's partner color is Blue, as in Electron Blue, the "complementary color" on the Color Wheel to Orange. I love Blue almost as much as I love Orange. If you stare at bright orange long enough, your eyes will have an after-image of blue. If you stare at blue long enough, your eyes will have an orange after-image. Hence I use orange and blue at the same time. And somewhere out there is a "Positron Orange" which I hope that "Electron Blue" never collides with, lest there be a huge explosion as matter meets anti-matter.
The lines of "Orange Limits" are from the graphs I've been working with in calculus, in which the outputs of functions rise towards positive or sink towards negative infinity. Other lines show a function's output as it edges closer and closer to its limit, without ever truly getting there. Now I am learning to find the limits of functions without using a graph, so it is not so artistically inspiring.
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