This looks like what I've been trying to create with particles, someone beat me to it with glass!
Link: www.colourlovers.com --- bending-light-color-with-alan-jaras
Link: www.flickr.com --- set-72057594061844447
Link: www.flickr.com --- 72157594422498771
And someone else having a go at 'painting with light'
Link: www.lapp-pro.de
Link: 2photo.ru --- jeksperimenty_so_svetom_lapp__light_art_performance_photography
Link: captainmarsh.deviantart.com --- light-trails-100007866
What I'm trying to do with volume renderings draws many parallels with xray photography too in terms of the aesthetic look.
Xray photography has this interesting way of turning normal objects into vector like, stylistic representations, Objects look like they are made from light:
Link: www.nickveasey.com
Link: www.nickveasey.com
Smoke Photography
Link: photocritic.org --- artsmoke-photographing-smoke
Link: www.flickr.com --- artsmoke
Link: www.sensitivelight.com
Link: www.flickr.com --- 72057594095776648
Someone with way too much time on their hands:
Link: www.petercallesen.com --- A4PAPERCUT_000.htm
Ok I'm starting this new 'Inspiration' section. Where I shall dump stuff I find visually interesting. A lot of the images will be shamelessly ripped from other peoples blogs, but that's what the internet is all about!
I'm also back dating it by moving some of my older posts into this where applicable.
Link: www.joshkeyes.net
Link: blog.signalnoise.com
Link: schloerb.com
Volumetric light in the real world TM
Nebulas... light art on a rather large scale
Subtle details in light and reality can make a simple thing beautiful.
Link: www.colourlovers.com --- bending-light-color-with-alan-jaras
Ink swirling around, inverted and then colored. Can't remember where I got this from
More ink swirleyness
Try rendering that for real... I don't know of anything that can do that volumetrically yet
Link: www.indigorenderer.com
Caustics
Link: flickr.com --- sizes
-- Examples --
Link: helios.mine.nu --- Inspiration
Link: helios.mine.nu --- Math Art
Here are some examples of Math Art and some links on the matter:
Link: www.bathsheba.com
Link: www.evolution-of-genius.de
-- Tools --
Finally!! found a program for creating math type art, this is awesome!
I've been looking for a program like this for years now, and it runs on Mac... woo! and is free!!! double woo!
Link: www.topmod3d.org
is a free, open source, portable, platform independent topological mesh modeling system that allows users to create high genus 2-manifold meshes.
Just did the following with Topmod3d playing about:
Link: paraclouding.com --- home
Link: www.remotion4d.net
Link: 3d-xplormath.org
Works on Mac and PC, has 3D export too in the Java version
Link: leofink.de --- gaston
Mac only right now, no 3D export, but It's fun and realtime:
Link: projects.gandreas.com --- quadriumflame