From 2D to 3D: Into the Button Jar!

in Sketchbook4 years ago

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Okay, so you know how one set of marble EPIC FAILS gave us fractal paper plates for those holiday gatherings we may have to have in the fractal/blockchain/Internet realm because ... well, you know...

Well, if you need to sew an extra button on a fractal outfit for said fractal gatherings, I have a whole button jar over here for you to get a button out of!

This whole adventure started here ...

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... and if you look carefully, you can already see the 3D-ishness of this figure in terms of depth, and that round shape down at the bottom. Sometimes, if strongly defined round shapes are already appearing in the more linear environment, that's a sign that a marble is not going to be possible.

But that wasn't what I was looking for anyway when this all started. I was looking to illustrate this story in Freewriters Community with a purple heart figure, so the initial journey ended up here ...

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AGAIN, looking at that, the layers and the general round figure has not disappeared ... the perfect heart has that same rough round figure forming above it, and those layers were flattening on each other roughly how they would later on.

But I thought it would make a pretty marble if it could be done, although it wasn't looking good from the beginning of the effort...

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That hard ring ... already showing up ... but you just don't know for sure until you know for sure...

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That hard ring went ahead and formed up completely by this time, but I started to realize ... will it sphere? No. But will it button? Yes!

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A nearly-colorless one ... you can look right through it ...

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Now buttons come in both clear and opaque form, and the three I have posted so far are of the clear and colored type. But, the math did yield some remarkable opaque ones ... this one has an antique look ...

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... this one would look nice on any color that goes well with brown...

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... this one with blue or pink ...

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... and on this deep brown one you can actually see that the last person who sowed it on used orange thread!

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I was not ready for the math to go all the way down to including the thread, but it was there in one of the steps of the pattern, AND SO...

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Here is one, with the thread attached, just as I sometimes saw buttons in my grandmother and great-aunt's button jars, growing up!

And another, a stunning opaque orange and brown and beige beauty with thread attached!

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And yet another, gold and brown with a strand of gold attached!

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Now, all of these are palette and positioning changes ... each choice of palette shows different aspects of the entire fractal. Choice of rendering background makes a difference as well ... gold and brown becomes yellow and beige on white...

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... and nearly clear with a slightly darker edge on yellow...

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So, my button jar LITERALLY can match up any color you may have owing to being made of color and light ... so, bring your fractal holiday outfits on over to the button jar if you need a new button!