Color Symphony
Stacked sine layers scrolling in and out of phase like a waveform.
About this piece
Seven horizontal wave layers stack across the frame. Each layer is a single line whose height at any point is the sum of two sine waves of different frequency — one long, slow swell and one shorter ripple — offset a little from the layer above it.
Time scrolls the whole stack, so the waves slide continuously left and right. Where a fast ripple in one layer lines up with a slow swell in another, the lines bunch and separate, producing the shimmering moiré you’d see through two overlaid nets.
What to look for
The layers shade from cobalt at the edges to coral in the middle, with the peak layer picking up a bone highlight, so the band has depth instead of reading flat.
No layer is ever cleared to a hard line — the redraw each frame is what animates the phase, giving the calm, endless scroll.
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More from the gallery
- Plate 08 Fractal Dreams A branching L-system swaying toward infinite depth.
- Plate 09 Truchet Tiles Quarter-arc tiles re-rolling into one continuous meander.
- Plate 10 Lissajous Ribbon A Lissajous curve traced as a tapering ribbon, phase adrift.
- Plate 11 Chladni Figures Grains settling on the nodal lines of a vibrating plate.
- Plate 12 Strange Attractor One de Jong orbit, drawn until its dust becomes a shape.
- Plate 13 Apollonian Gasket Tangent circles packed into every gap, turning slowly.