John Edmark‘s sculptures wiggle and twist before your eyes. It’s hard to believe that what you’re seeing is a real physical object—but we assure you it is, with a bit of trick photography and some heady mathematics thrown in for good measure. Blooms 2 (a year in the making) is the latest collection of wild strobe-animated sculptures that begin life as computer programs written in Python before being 3D printed and set in motion on a table, but the patterns you see are created, in a sense, by nature itself.

 

BLOOMS: Strobe Animated Sculptures Invented by John Edmark from Pier 9 on Vimeo.