Frolic in Tortuosity Canvas Print

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Hand drawn ink on acid free paper. The soft colors were created by pushing the ink through the paper from the back side of the drawing. Once the colored areas were complete, the drawing was flipped over and fine line black and sepia details were added.

Tortuosity is a general term describing path curvature and how often a path changes direction and doubles back. A handy way to think about it is in terms of a random walk taken by a highly inebriated person. A lot of cocktails and small steps creates a highly tortuous path. reduce the number of cocktails or increase the step size and the person's path becomes less tortuous.

Tortuosity is quantified and used in areas like Polymer Physics and Gel diffusion. In Polymer Physics a long floppy molecule forms a random coil - a structure l;ike tangled shoelaces or boiled spaghetti.

Al dente spaghetti coils into less tight, complex, and tortuous shapes than slightly overcooked spaghetti. Sneaker shoelaces can form tight...

Follow me on Twitter @NerdlyPainter See my images available for Royalty free and Rights Managed Licenses ! (easy peasy checkout) Statement: Art can illuminate even the most elusive and difficult to comprehend ideas. Scientific imagery can be as impenetrable as well as intriguing and beautiful. Analysis of many technical diagrams, presentations of data, and scientific images is a set of commonly accepted rules that are learned and internalized over years of study and publication. These rules and tightly codified visual metaphors help scientists communicate complex ideas mostly amongst themselves, but they could also become barriers to new ideas and insights. Valluzzi's images are abstracted and diverge from the typical rules and...