Circles

You hardly ever see circles in marbling. This is surprising to me, because I don’t believe it is difficult to create them physically.

Circles are certainly quite easy to generate in a simulation, and you can create many attractive effects with them.

This pattern was inspired by the five Olympic rings. The palette consists of the five Olympic colours on a white background.

Here is a detail from the Olympic rings:

This is a Gelgit overlaid with a grid of circles that alternate between clockwise and anticlockwise.

This pattern is created by the intersection of two equally sized circles and looks a little like the Yin Yang symbol, so I decided to make one in black and white.

The next image consists of four “stacks” of four circles each. The previous black and white image corresponds to the top of one of the stacks.

Here is a detail from the previous image (computed at a much higher resolution):

We created this pattern for the #welovechallenge25 on Instagram, who specified the palette.