ShapeVision Art : Martin Brooks

Welcome to ShapeVision Art — exploring the expressive power of Extreme Vector Graphics® and illuminating Hidden Shapes of Nature®.

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Koyman Galleries beautifully framed ShapeVision Art for sale link!

Prints in Wakefield at End of the Line Boutique link!

ShapeVision Inc. awarded trademarks for Hidden Shapes of Nature® and Extreme Vector Graphics®.

ShapeVision is printed art.

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All ShapeVision Art copyright Martin Brooks 2018-2026.

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Quiet City

ShapeVision painterly Ottawa seen through traffic cams. Source pictures courtesy City of Ottawa Open Data.

Hidden Shapes of Nature®

ShapeVision illuminates the fractal geometry of nature.

ShapeVision math seems out of reach to many people (see here if you are curious), but may be easily understood as follows:

The math treats each pixel of a source photo as if it were elevation data for a topographic map, with contour lines of equal brightness. Certain contour lines are selected to appear in the picture as the boundaries of shapes. Each shape has a single colour, determined by the colours of the source image pixels within. The artist controls the transformation from pixels to shapes using software dials and sliders, resulting in a wide range of vector graphics to use in artworks.

ShapeVision is easy to use, but computationally demanding: Photo in, vector graphics out. ShapeVision creates extreme vector graphics, comprising 10,000 - 100,000 shapes, many having thousands of boundary points. Extreme Vector Graphic® is a new artistic medium.

ShapeVision inkjet prints reveal sharp shapes down to printer resolution. Below, see the view of the print surface through a 20x optical microscope; the shape details you see here are barely visible to the naked eye.