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untitled000E / 7.6.26 / Blender, EEVEE

For this one I start with a hexagonal grid of "kissing" circles, and apply a Mobius transformation on the complex plane. Since a Mobius transformation is conformal, the circles stay circles but we see the grid go off to infinity in the center of the image. If we were to zoom in, it would continue forever like a fractal. Each circle is still "kissing" six other circles in a hexagonal lattice structure. It might look like the large circle is only kissing 5 other circles, but the sixth circle is the entire outer bounds of the image, becoming essentially turned inside-out.

Now that I have a lot more knowledge and skills, I can explore all the crazy ideas I used to have, like cellular automata on a Möbius strip! Stay tuned :)

These plots are produced by dropping a million grains on the very center cell and having it all topple until stability. The cells are colored by how many grains of sand are on it. The different results come from changing the toppling rules; how many a cell can hold and how many go to each neighbor. Absolutely fascinating structure!

This one was particularly strange (and the animation is extra fascinating). There's 9 'leafs' connected tip to tip forming a mobius-strip-esque loop in 3D space. Each leaf has perpendicular filaments that grow in number throughout the animation. It's been so much fun exploring this one!