latest iteration

next I will have the stars coalesce into the center so that the animation is cyclical.

facts & details

PROJECT SUMMARY // My project is an investigation of how imagined, geometric objects can be visualized in a way that ties them into a setting with which we are familiar. I hope to transition from one "world" of platonic objects into a stylized version of the night sky. My concern, is it too nostalgic?

Art in a Space|INSTALLATION DETAILS // If we use the SoA Sandpoint Gallery, then I'd like to section off part of the hallway and have the entrance be the door built into the gallery wall. I'll bring in lawn chairs (or not - still deciding) and project my animation onto the ceiling. Hopefully this will be a dark room.

EQUIPMENT // I need a projector and a laptop or mac mini if possible. And I need the goggles that allow you to view in stereo. I will find lawn chairs. I may need to build a projecting surface, if the ceiling is not suitable.

CONDITIONS // I hope to use the door built into the gallery wall (like I stated above). Also, I require a dark space.

My latest test includes a dynamic blue background. Next step: animate stars popping into the frame; probably in 2D.

a new ending

(Please Note, I elaborated on the previous 3 posts.)

(click the image for high-res) Changes made: The texture and reflectivity of the spheres is much brighter than before. It reminds me of the famous Hubble photo of dozens of galaxies through a gravitational lens (seen below).

In terms of the gallery scenario, I'd like to project the stereo animation to a canvas suspended from above. I'd like to bring in lawn chairs so that the viewer can recline while looking above.

collaboration pending

Julia and I have discussed the central themes of her project. We hope to expand upon these ideas resulting in a new form or new project concept.

Interesting subjects to me:
_awareness of ones internal composition
_how processes unknown to us are maintaining us
_enormous amounts of 'coding' within our bodies

*view her project site*

Inspiration:
_powers of 10 video

...I wonder if we can use some specific signage; something very recognizable that would allow the viewer to instantly recall the scale juxtaposition of their body to a microscopic depiction... dna?

dx442 final stereoscopic project

This is my final project for dxarts 442 3D class.

Wish I had just a single, non-squished frame...



When you see the scientist outline, insert this dialogue:

_Consider a point.
_A point has zero dimensionality, but when you extend it, you now have a line of one dimension.
_Extending this line perpendicular to itself would give you a square - a two dimensional object.
:
etc...
:
_What we see as a hypercube or tesseract is a shadow of a 4 dimensional cube....

(the scientist outline disappears and warm-fuzzy music fades in.)


eom

essay on *time*

One of my favorite classes at the UW was an english class, of all things, on "theories of time". I loved this class. We covered a huge range of cultural systems, religions, scientific theories and philosophers theories to see how they view time.

My interests gravitated toward systems of time found in science. As per Eunsu's request, I posted an essay I wrote relating calculus to Zeno's Paradox of the arrow to Henri Bergson's concept of time.

The pdf can be viewed here:
Implications of Calculus onto Theories of Time