Category: Op-Art
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Kaleidoscope like 1973!
We recently had a challenge to use symbols to make something using rotational symmetry. This is how I simulated the view inside a kaleidoscope like we used to have as kids in the 1970s. Overview More detail on each step is provided below. Clipping mask We want the resulting image to be a hexagon made…
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Using XOR compounds for Op Art
Continuing the series of Op Art designs inspired by Bridget Riley and made using Affinity Designer, here is an article about how some of these are best approached using Compounds and the XOR Boolean function. Here is the image we are trying to create: The quick analysis of the image goes as follows: Right, the…
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Optical Art in minutes
I have a book published by the Hayward Gallery for a retrospetive exhibition of Bridget Riley in 1971. The book cost £2 from a charity shop and was well worth it. It contains plates of a lot of her Op Art from the early 1960s. I thought it would be fun to try to reproduce…