Cosmic Circles
Soft luminous orbs drifting through slow, breathing orbital rounds.
About this piece
Seven soft orbs trace circular orbits around the centre of the frame. Each orb is not a hard disc but a radial gradient — bright in the middle, transparent at the edge — so it reads as a pool of light rather than a shape.
The orbs are drawn with the canvas set to “lighter” (additive) blending, which means overlapping light adds instead of covering up. Where two orbs cross you get a brighter, warmer core, the way overlapping stage lights pool on a floor.
What to look for
The orbit radius is itself driven by a sine wave, so the whole constellation slowly breathes — expanding outward and drawing back in — rather than spinning at a fixed distance.
Every third orb is coral; the rest are cobalt, so the warm and cool lights chase each other around the ring.
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More from the gallery
- Plate 04 Spiral Waves Logarithmic arms winding into standing waves.
- Plate 05 Particle Burst A continuous bloom of particles from the core.
- Plate 06 Geometric Flow Hexagons orbiting in harmonic rotation.
- Plate 07 Color Symphony Layered sine waves scrolling in phase.
- Plate 08 Fractal Dreams A branching L-system swaying toward infinite depth.
- Plate 09 Truchet Tiles Quarter-arc tiles re-rolling into one continuous meander.