Tag: kolam

  • Heilige Schlaf(-störung)

    Heilige Schlaf(-störung)

    5.15am, December 23rd, 2014. Tharangambadi, Tamil Nadu, India. Pitch black. The dead of night. Except that the stillness that accompanies those well-known phrases is all too conspicuously missing. Karin is pacing the floor, furious at being woken up yet again. We thought it might be peaceful here but there’s no denying it: love it or…

  • Kolam

    Kolam

    The self-similar properties of visual patterns generated by Lindenmayer-Systems can be apprehended holistically almost instantaneously. Even simple rules can generate pleasing patterns of the sort you might see on cloth or as the Kolam figures drawn in front of southeast Indian houses. One of the problems of rendering Lindenmayer-Sequences in a musi-linear form is that…