#RavenousArtwork_LotusFlower_VectorImage
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"Ravenous Wolves" image:
An astute observer may have noticed that the cover art for the Ravenous Wolves series is not a depiction of a wolf but that of a spider - a #WOLFspider. The female wolf spider carries her egg sac until the offspring hatch out and crawl onto her abdomen, where they remain for a brief period of motherly protection. Covered in spider silk, the egg sacs themselves are protected from the elements by one of the strongest, most durable materials on earth - out of all the wolves to wear fleece.
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"EstablishMent Web of Lies" image:
The "EstablishMent Web of Lies" image depicts a symbol of the EstablishMent hiding behind a silk-covered egg sac, a "Five-Dimensional Web of Lies", which is also the title of the opening article for the "Ravenous Wolves" series. This article happens to be the most informative in relation to current events. Remarkably, the web / egg sac image was created by superimposing two separate line segment graphics, geometric designs that are interesting in their own right.
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In fact, these primary designs were interesting enough to be used as the cover art for two other articles within the Ravenous Wolves series. It is rather ironic that a lotus flower and a dandelion could be combined in the formation a spider web, but there are no limits to the superimposition of graphic material. The geometric significance of "Ravenous Artwork - Lotus Flower" and "#GnG_Reciprocity - Dandelion" will be detailed below.
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Perhaps the most interesting aspect of "EstablishMent Web of Lies" (#MentWeb) is the chaotic uniformity of the piece. At first glance, it would appear as though the line segments are not based on any form of regular geometry. But the mind does start to pick up on impossible dimensions (think of the numerous staircase pieces by MC Escher, but a simplified version) in addition to regular geometric shapes, particularly the 5- and 6-pointed mullet (star), which originate from the lotus flower and dandelion pieces respectively. The 5-pointed mullet is more noticeable if the piece is rotated 90 degrees, giving the mullet a vertical orientation and left-right symmetry. This #LeftRightSymmetry is likely the reason why the mind is more likely to pick up on the 5-pointed mullet in that orientation.
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Admittedly, the superimposition which created the #MentWeb was purely accidental. All the designs used in this series were originally created about 20 years ago but were never officially applied to anything. The author was saving this work in his arsenal for something although he did not know what it would be. "Five-Dimensional Web of Lies" was originally published with a bland title, but the author decided to go in a different direction, utilizing his arsenal of optical art (#OpArt) to promote the series.
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Shortly after changing the title name, the author had intended to use the artwork from "New Spiritual Order, 5-D Awareness" to represent the #MentWeb. However, when looking through the various layers of an old vector file, the author stumbled upon the superimposition by having both layers turned on simultaneously and was blown away by the result. The rest - is hist'ry.
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"Ravenous Wolves" image,
#RavenousWolf_KamaLaHarris image, &
#RavenousWolf_DonaldTrump image:
These three pieces use a tessellating spider design that was inspired by the little sister of the author's former girlfriend, many moons ago. She was in elementary school at the time and was assigned a tessellation project in art class. When the author was on break from college, he decided to create his own tessellations based on a hexagon. This annoyed the girlfriend's little sister, who thought the author was competing with her, so he gave her some inspirational advice that she would one day have the ability to create something even greater. In addition to the spider design, there were also multiple tessellating #Bee and #Moth pieces created around the same time (early 2000s).
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Basing these tessellations on a hexagon, as opposed to a square, gave the interlocking relationship another dimension of difficulty because a hexagon has six intersecting edges, along three axes of symmetry, as opposed to four edges along two axes. This can most easily be illustrated with the little green, khaki, and brown spiders that form the fractal amalgamation of the same design in #RavenousWolf_DonaldTrump. The little spiders look slightly distorted due to having a different offset or stroke thickness, but the interlocking line segments of these spiders are identical to the line segments that form the conglomerate spider.
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#RavenousWolf_DonaldTrump is both a tessellation and a fractal design. A tessellation is a geometric design with tiles that form an interlocking pattern which can be repeated for infinity in all directions. A fractal is a geometric pattern that infinitely repeats at different levels of magnification. In this particular design, the pattern can be repeated infinitely in two separate ways, by tiling and by scaling.
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In addition to "EstablishMent Web of Lies",
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#RavenousWolf_KamaLaHarris and
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#RavenousWolf_DonaldTrump
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both incorporate the EstablishMent symbol as part of the design because both politicians (along with Clinton, Biden et al) have worked together in a coordinated effort to intensify working class partisanship.
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"New Spiritual Order, 5-D Awareness" image:
As previously mentioned, this piece was initially intended to be used as the cover art for "Five-Dimensional Web of Lies", but the author discovered the effects of superimposing the lotus flower and dandelion pieces and went with the more appropriate visual representation of a web. Although it might be difficult to see this at the moment, the spiritual realm is not limited to the forces of evil. Therefore, an optical art piece that demonstrates impossible dimensions could be used to represent the forces of good, or it could be used to represent the forces of evil, depending on which one is more appropriate.
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"New Spiritual Order" is fractal, and it has impossible dimension effects. If an observer stares at the piece long enough, the line segments start to pop out as if they were a three-dimensional representation, but the objects formed in the mind could not exist within three spatial dimensions, hence the term "impossible" dimensions. If the observer stares at this piece long enough, the dimensionality starts to animate, something an observer confirmed without being conditioned.
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The piece was created with an octagon that circumscribes two 4-pointed mullets, one with an orthogonal orientation, and one with a 45-degree rotation. The interior points of the two 4-pointed mullet #Compass pattern intersect with the exterior points of the smaller 8-pointed mullet. The interior of the 8-pointed mullet forms an octagon, which means the entire piece could be scaled down to the size of that interior octagon to create a fractal pattern.
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"#GnG_Reciprocity - Dandelion" image:
As previously mentioned, this piece and another one were superimposed to form "EstablishMent Web of Lies". "#GnG_Reciprocity - Dandelion" is based on a dodecagon, a 12-sided polygon. Each line segment that makes up the dodecagon was used to form an isosceles triangle, and the inner points of the 12 triangles were connected to the center point of the dodecagon.
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Additionally, there are two 6-pointed mullets with exterior points that intersect with the dodecagon vertices. One of the 6-pointed mullets has a vertical orientation, and one has a horizontal orientation. The intersecting silhouette of the two 6-pointed mullets forms a 12-pointed mullet. And the intertangled mesh created by the two mullets and twelve triangles creates the impression of a dandelion seedhead (#Puffball).
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"Ravenous Artwork - Lotus Flower" image:
The arrangement of line segments used to create "Ravenous Artwork - Lotus Flower" (the cover art for Ravenous Artwork) were superimposed with the line segments which comprise "#GnG_Reciprocity - Dandelion" to create a third line segment graphic, "EstablishMent Web of Lies".
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On its own, the #LotusFlower stands out as a fractal #OpArt design, and the author chose to display it with a 90-degree rotation (relative to its layout in "EstablishMent Web of Lies") so that the 5-pointed mullets have a vertical orientation and #LeftRightSymmetry.
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Because twelve is divisible by four, an orthogonal dodecagon (12-sided polygon) either has 4 vertices at its extents, or it has 4 line segments at its extents. An orthogonal decagon (10-sided polygon), on the other hand, has two points (or vertices) at its extents in the horizontal, and it has two line segments at its extents in the vertical (or vice versa).
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An orthogonal decagon either has a vertical orientation and left-right symmetry, or it has a horizontal orientation and top-bottom symmetry.
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Conversely, an orthogonal dodecagon does not have a separate orientation for the vertical / horizontal because it simultaneously has both left-right and top-bottom symmetry. Twelve is divisible by four, and ten is not.
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The #LotusFlower design is based on a decagon, a 10-sided polygon that circumscribes an upright 5-pointed mullet and its mirror image, an upside-down mullet that also has five points. The interior vertices of the upright mullet intersect with the exterior vertices of another mullet that has been scaled down and mirrored. This process was repeated three more times (#UprightNest), and the outer upside-down mullet contains four nesting mullets as well (#UpsideDownNest).
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The #UprightNest and the #UpsideDownNest were superimposed before being framed by a decagon to form the completed #LotusFlower design, which has a 10-pointed mullet at its center and a 10-pointed polygon at its extents. Therefore, the design is fractal. The entire piece could be copied and scaled down so that the vertices of the new decagon intersect with the 10 interior vertices of the old, 10-pointed mullet at the center of the original design.
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