Blooming Light

on 27 Oct 2022

% Shout out to Eric and Lola, the flower design caught my eye.

% I wanted to take a dramatic remix to the flower. The flower represents

% light blooming from an unknown source.

m=0:.01:1;

T=-4:.01:25;

x=1-(5/4*(1-mod(3.6*T, 2)).^2-1/4).^2/2;

P=exp(-T/5)/2;

s=sinpi(P);

c=cospi(P);

y=2*m'.^5.*(1.6*m'-1).^2.*s;

S=x.*(m'.*s+y.*c);

X=S.*sinpi(T);

Y=S.*cospi(T);

Z=m'.*c+y.*s;

surf(X,Y,x.*Z,X.^2+Y.^2+Z.^4);

axis equal off

view([0 33])

colormap(flip(hot))

shading interp