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Thomas Maria Helzle
@thomashelzle.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy
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Media artist · Designer · Pen-Plotter · Sculptor · Creative Coder · Node-Lover · Sounder · Writer · No AI

Living in Berlin

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"Ginko"

Eternal leaves from another age.

I love Ginko trees and leaves and experimented with multi-colour and -layered pen-plotter prints.

Drawings done in @sidefxhoudini 16.5 Core - my old trusted license I bought what feels like ages ago.

DM me if you want […]

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Ginko leaf shaped line art with dense lines in black india ink and a second layer of less dense lines in bronze metallic ball pen on white drawing paper. Ginko leaf shaped line art with dense lines in black india ink and a second layer of less dense lines in bronze metallic ball pen on white drawing paper. Closeup on the upper part of the leaf to show the fine structure of lines and paper. Ginko leaf shaped line art with dense lines in black india ink and a second layer of less dense lines in white ball pen on dark red cardboard. Ginko leaf shaped line art with dense lines in black india ink and a second layer of less dense lines in white ball pen on dark red cardboard. Closeup on the stem of the leaf showing the densely layered, grooved white lines . The white ink is rather thick and so it creates some structure from the pen moving through it several times.
September 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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I love this man so much:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krZmYALUqhM
September 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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"Square"

Conscious - Subconscious
Ego - Shadow
Outside - Inside
Me - You

And space in between.

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SideFX Houdini Core using the "Shortest Path" algorithm on variable density grids.

Found a new thin white ballpen that allows me to print this kind of […]

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White tendrils grow towards a square standing on it's tip from the outside as well as from the inside. They branch out towards it so are the most dense at the border and by that, make it visible as an empty space. White ballpen on A4 slate cardboard. White tendrils grow towards a square standing on it's tip from the outside as well as from the inside. They branch out towards it so are the most dense at the border and by that, make it visible as an empty space. White ballpen on A4 dark red cardboard. White tendrils grow towards a square standing on it's tip from the outside as well as from the inside. They branch out towards it so are the most dense at the border and by that, make it visible as an empty space. White ballpen on A4 slate cardboard. Detail view on one corner of the print. White tendrils grow towards a square standing on it's tip from the outside as well as from the inside. They branch out towards it so are the most dense at the border and by that, make it visible as an empty space. White ballpen on A4 dark red cardboard. Detail view on one corner of the print, showing the strokes and their texture.
September 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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"LIFE"

3D-printer-gone-pen-plotter prints, based on the "Shortest Path" algorithm on a variable resolution grid in SideFX Houdini.

The multi-colour ones are printed several times on top of each other with me lifting the pen manually for partial coverage […]

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The word "LIFE" is formed by tendrils that come from an outside rounded rectangle and get more dense due to increased branching towards the outline of the text. White ballpen on red cardboard. The word "LIFE" is formed by tendrils that come from an outside rounded rectangle and get more dense due to increased branching towards the outline of the text. Black india ink and then partial white ballpen on blue cardboard. The word "LIFE" is formed by tendrils that come from an outside rounded rectangle and get more dense due to increased branching towards the outline of the text. White ballpen first, then red metallic ballpen partially and on top black india ink in some places only. The word "LIFE" is formed by tendrils that come from an outside rounded rectangle and get more dense due to increased branching towards the outline of the text. Blue ink on white art paper.
September 8, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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"Circle"

Two colour silver and gold ball pen on
graphite 300g/m² photo cardboard.

Drawn two times where the second time I lift the pen away manually every now and then.

The other images are a closeup macro and another version of the same design with black and […]

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A flowing design with lines radiating away from a circle in organic forms. Printed with a pen plotter on dark cardboard in two rounds, first silver and then gold on top, with me lifting the pen away manually to get areas without gold. Chrome frame. Macro closeup of a flowing design with lines radiating away from a circle in organic forms. Printed with a pen plotter on dark cardboard in two rounds, first silver and then gold on top, with me lifting the pen away manually to get areas without gold. Zoomed in like this it almost looks like lace or stitches! The same flowing design with lines radiating away from a circle in organic forms. Printed with a pen plotter on dark cardboard in two rounds, first black india ink and then white ink on top, with me lifting the pen away manually to get areas without white. Lying on a work cuttingboard with a alignment grid. We also see two Rapidograph pens and two ink bottles. Macro closeup of the same flowing design with lines radiating away from a circle in organic forms. Printed with a pen plotter on dark cardboard in two rounds, first black india ink and then white ink on top, with me lifting the pen away manually to get areas without white. The closeup shows nicely how the white ink is thicker where the pen starts and ends.
September 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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"Berlin TV-Tower"

The first drawing from my converted @creality3d Ender 5 Plus 3D printer which now also acts as a pen plotter (see previous post).

Now available for sale - DM me if you are interested.

India ink on 190 g/m² A4 fine art paper.

Plotting time […]

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Silhouette of the Berlin TV-Tower printed with an ink-plotter I created from my Creality Ender 5 Plus. From the silhouette, there are lines flowing out in a very organic way that I find hard to describe. Maybe like wind? Black India ink on white 190g/m2 fine art paper. Detail view of the silhouette of the Berlin TV-Tower printed with an ink-plotter I created from my Creality Ender 5 Plus. From the silhouette, there are lines flowing out in a very organic way that I find hard to describe. Maybe like wind? Black India ink on white 190g/m2 fine art paper. Detail view of waving lines of the silhouette of the Berlin TV-Tower printed with an ink-plotter I created from my Creality Ender 5 Plus. From the silhouette, there are lines flowing out in a very organic way that I find hard to describe. Maybe like wind? Black India ink on white 190g/m2 fine art paper. Detail view with depth of field of the silhouette of the Berlin TV-Tower printed with an ink-plotter I created from my Creality Ender 5 Plus. From the silhouette, there are lines flowing out in a very organic way that I find hard to describe. Maybe like wind? Black India ink on white 190g/m2 fine art paper.
August 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Finally! I made my 3D-printer into a drawing-robot!

Adding a pen holder to my @creality3d Ender 5 Plus now allows me to print/plot with a wide variety of pens, inks and papers.

SVG to Inkscape, creating Marlin gcode via "vpype" on the commandline and then to the printer via Klipper on a […]
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August 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Installing Houdini 21 - nice! :-)
August 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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That is basically what my art is all about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruMC_rM8AlE

#MastoArt #art #sense #nonsense #zen #purpose #wisdom
July 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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"Burning Away Our Future"

38° C today...

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Ported this ocean: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MdXyzX to a TiXL compute shader HLSL as an exercise for point displacement and combined it with particles...

Sound is 100% synthesised in Synthmaster 3.

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July 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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TheOrb · Part V · Wisdom

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.
It will not lead you astray."
· Rumi

Once again I explore a line and a circle in TiXL (https://tixl.app) in an audioreactive piece with a meditative […]

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June 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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The Orb · Part IV · Love

The only force that can heal us is love:

"Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there."
· Rumi

"You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens."
· Rumi

"The broken places is where the light comes in."
· Rumi

May you be well!

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June 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Moebius City · A SDF Fractal Journey

"Run from what’s comfortable.
Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.
I have tried prudent planning long enough.
From now on I’ll be mad."

· Rumi ·

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Custom SDF fractals in TiXL rendered via raymarching + 1 […]
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June 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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The Orb · Part III · Confusion

“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.”

Carl Jung

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Man must I be on my own path then...

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#mentalhealth #trauma #complexptsd #tixl #realtime #newmediaart #abstractart #particles […]

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June 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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The Orb · Part II · Conscious/Subconscious

“Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.”

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

C. G. Jung

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#tooll3 #tixl #realtime […]

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June 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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The Orb · Part I · Innocence

“Dance, when you’re broken open.
Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance when you’re perfectly free.”

Rumi

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A series of animations that emerged recently around a […]

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June 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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"The Raw Stuff" - First Renoise Break Beats...

When I had an Amiga 500 back in the 80ies, I never used trackers but mostly worked with "Bars and Pipes".
But now after 10 years of Bitwig Studio and some toe-dipping into Tidal Cycles, I find the tracker workflow […]

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May 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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"A Cube in Hyperspace" ;-)

Trying out the the SDF fields in TiXL (formerly known as "Tooll3").
Here a cube SDF is an attractor for 4 million particles emitted by 4 lines through the cubes diagonals.

#tooll3 #tixl #realtime #newmediaart #abstractart […]

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May 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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"Komm, großer schwarzer Vogel" / "Come, big black Bird"

I woke up recently with the idea for this meditative animation.
At first it was white on black only, but then the next day I woke up with the title, which is also the title of a sad and beautiful song by […]

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May 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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"Harmony of the Spheres"

Finally back to Oscilloscope-Music and here I used #synthmaster3 for the sound, spreading the phase of 4 voices to get interesting patterns in the X/Y view.
Adding a bit of Distortion in #Osci-Render.

I so love this! :-)

Thanks to […]

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April 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Feel the pulse of life inside of you.
Your heart, your breath, your energy.
Listen close and listen well.
This is the real you.
The one that you have to take good care off.

Exploring Tooll3 "Main" with SDF-fields and custom Turbulence.

#tooll3 #realtime […]

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April 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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"Munching Squares" Feedback

An experiment with this deceivingly simple algorithm in Tooll3, adding feedback for smoother changes and some organic flow.

Music created with "Plasmonic".

#MastoArt #tooll3 #munchingcubes #art #algorithm #math #realtime […]

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April 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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"The Engine of Time"

This is how time is made, from quantum streams of energy in perpetual flux, the rhythm of life itself.

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Finally trying out the new version of Tooll3 ("main") that now offers SDF fields for selection, as forces and for raymarching […]

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April 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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"URBANFLOW.art" #Physarum #simulation

So my research and development is bearing fruit:
Today I tried out using my new physarum force with SDF-text in the form of our Media·Art studios name https://UrbanFlow.art
And together with several other forces this turned out beautiful!

#MastoArt #tooll3 […]
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March 27, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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"Stream of Consciousness" · Physarum simulation

From a diffuse field of feelings, ideas and outer impulses our mind creates streams, fields and rivulets of ideas and thoughts.
Some solve complex problems, some decide what to wear or eat, most are circular movements without a real purpose […]
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March 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM