Binomial / work in progress

I’ve been working on a new geometry, and therefore to some extent a new series of images. I’m working with the title Binomial, not sure if that’s where I’m going to stick, probably not I suspect, but we’ll see.

In this first phase it’s been an engaging look at how best to pack a set of spheres into a toroid, a mathematical puzzle that you might think would have been broadly resolved by now, but in fact I haven’t been able to find very much about the geometry and its potential online at all.

There’s an interesting payoff between the number of spheres you want to use, the way they sit together, and the patterns they create in the larger whole, in some ways rather similar to the way seeds are packed into a seedhead in nature.