Mark Stock Studio

This piece is one in a series of three related works, each of which portrays a collection of streamlines confined to stay within a bounding volume. Each piece in the Extruded Simplices series shares common geometry, volumes, and proportions. As subcomponents, each streamline is an extrusion of a sphere through an artificial flowfield in three-dimensional space. Likewise, the overall shape of the collection of streamlines in each piece implies a different extrusion: a sphere, a cylinder, a cylindrical hole in a flat plane. I chose to emphasize this hierarchy of simple and complex as a way of comparing the hierarchy of natural objects to the methods of computational science.