Agglomeration 34

Today’s math-art is titled Agglomeration 34. What’s an agglomeration? It’s not a mathematical term. Rather, it means the clustering of things to form a mass, this term is majorly used in geography (to denote the clustering of cities) and informatics (to denote the clustering and density of information)

It was created by Croatian artist/Professor of Informatics, Vlatko Ceric. Just like the rest of his art works, this one is an algorithmic art, based on computational models he was working on. Algorithmic art is art that was generated by computer algorithm, where most of the math comes in. My previous Spiral Star is an example of an algorithmic art.

From this image, you can clearly see the works of a recursive algorithm. Also you can see an incremental recursive function, like n=n+1 (or whatever form is used to recursively increase the size of the squares). According to Prof. Ceric,

…I try to produce images with the rough idea what they should look like, and I am searching for mathematical and computational tools required to produce it. The algorithm that produces some complex image can in fact be quite simple - this is well known fact… My central issues of interest are: determinism vs randomeness, simplicity vs. complexity and linearity vs. nonlinearity. I do a lot of experimenting in order to achieve appropriate and interesting images. And a lot of usage of left and right brain!

I chose this out of the 38 pictures in the Agglomeration series because the seemingly random (they are not that random) red spots add a bit of interest to a black-and-white image.