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Nopo Science « Nopo Art and Science

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Nopo Art and Science. The Tao that can be named is not the eternal Tao.". The Tao Te Ching. NOPO – AN ORGANIC VIEW of the PHYSICAL WORLD. What was that about? As for trickier concepts like Quantum Theory, with its weird probabilities, they didn’t seem to make any sense at all. I tackled these mind-benders as best as I could, but unfortunately, at a certain point, physics becomes mathematics, and equations are chloroform to me. That most famous equation, E=MC. I hadn’t a clue. What follows, then, is not a...

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Radiation « Nopo Art and Science

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Nopo Art and Science. Now, I am going to describe what this essay is really about in one word:. Yes, Radiation. The Universe is radiating. Everything. Light, heat, sound, x-rays, radio waves, it doesn’t matter, it’s all radiation. Every point in the Universe is radiating at every moment. We are all bundles of radiation. It’s all about radiation. Ra-di-a-tion. So… What the hell is radiation? To proceed in all directions from a single point. Etc The radius measures the distance from a point that has no Mas...

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Geometric vs. Organic Drawing « Nopo Art and Science

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Nopo Art and Science. Geometric vs. Organic Drawing. In the same way that Geometric compositions starts outside, with the frame, and focus in, dividing space, a similar principal applies in Geometric draftsmanship—a view that focuses in, going from large to small, from the general to the specific. Geometric draftsmanship begins with sketches of basic shapes—an oval for a head, a cylinder for the torso, etc—arranged proportionally, with the details filled in gradually. The Mona Lisa is really just a pear!

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Space and Time « Nopo Art and Science

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Nopo Art and Science. In order to provide a Geometric framework upon reality, scientists have divided the Universe into units such as Space and Time, each of which must be divided into its own coordinates to be meaningful. These units are extremely helpful when figuring out things like when two on-rushing trains are going to collide with each other and so on. 8212;it doesn’t exist within this or that dimension. Space and Time are simply definitions. Pure Space is boundaryless. To designate one partic...

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Introducing Newton and Einstein « Nopo Art and Science

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Nopo Art and Science. Introducing Newton and Einstein. The Big Bang was a 20th century discovery, yet Isaac Newton caught a glimpse of an infinitely expanding Universe 400 years earlier with his First Law of Motion—an object in mention tends to stay in motion —. 8212; that absent an impediment, moving stuff keeps on moving forever. And then there’s this immortal gem:. For every Action, there is an Equal and Opposite Re-action. I’ll also be employing Albert Einstein’s lovely metaphor of Spacetime to illum...

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Sequence « Nopo Art and Science

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Nopo Art and Science. In Organic Art, just as important as the marks themselves is the order in which they are drawn. From a Geometric viewpoint, objects are viewed all at once, existing in their entirety, springing forth full-blown. A square for instance. Here is a Geometric square. Now here is an Organic square. Now, you might say, isn’t that all semantics? Geometric squares, Organic squares, what does it matter, so long as they’re both squares? What mark comes next? Here, let me show you two different...

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Organic Art vs Geometric Art « Nopo Art and Science

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Nopo Art and Science. Organic Art vs Geometric Art. A jokester once said that the world is divided up into two groups—between those who divide people into two groups and those who don’t. Because really, everything can be divided into two groups in fact, as a rule, things are defined by their opposite—Slow vs. Fast, Big vs. Little, Hot vs. Cold, Yin vs. Yang, etc. Whereas Geometric Art begins with a frame and converges in on a Focal Point:. Organic Art begins with a Nodal Point and radiates out:. Gravity ...

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An Organic Picture « Nopo Art and Science

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Nopo Art and Science. Let me show how this organic process played itself out in a little more detail, in a piece called Reflections. Regardless of whether or not I actually achieved such sublime results, that wasn’t how Reflections. Came into being at all. It was in fact the product of a long search for an image that took me through many different pictures. It began as a doodle ( Escape. As usual, I started with marks united around a Nodal Point, indicated by the. The image went through too many alterati...

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Organic Composition « Nopo Art and Science

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Nopo Art and Science. Allow me to demonstrate a simple visual thought using these principles, of the kind made all the time in Organic compositions. For clarity’s sake, I’m going to use basic geometric shapes because they are easier to read than wild paint splotches a la Jackson Pollock, which are organic by their very nature. What ‘s important here is the process, not the particulars. OK We start with an empty frame, as shown. A sequence that begins and ends at the primary Nodal Point can be considered ...

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Using Mechanical Devices Organically « Nopo Art and Science

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Nopo Art and Science. Using Mechanical Devices Organically. Since I have identified what is Geometric about mechanical devices, I think it is only fair to celebrate that which is Organic about them. For while the digital nature of technology locks the picture into obeying uniform rules, it also allows for an increase in complexity by dividing the image into multiple components. The sequence of choices is Organic, even if the grid on which the composition hangs is Geometric. To take one familiar example, ...