Shifting Lines to Surfaces / Virtual to Empirical

House of the Flying Daggers

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Battleship Potemkin

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dolls group work

2007-12-07T04:01:00.000-08:00

Final

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mid review photos

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I adjusted a simple surface (cylindrical shell) by manipulating an attached skeletal structure, so I want to find a way to show this structure with my final form

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Deformations

Done?

2007-10-16T16:26:00.000-07:00

System Developing (linear to spatial)

2007-10-16T15:39:00.000-07:00

Possibilities_2nd_Analysis

2007-10-11T19:18:00.001-07:00

Tool: Rhinoceros, attractor script
Cube: 3*3*3 (1575 cubes)
Script: Random points, threshold=20, scale factor=5

Smaller Area

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Connecting...

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Possibilities_2nd

2007-10-09T17:37:00.001-07:00

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Mapping new joint configuration in Maya, then adding skin to create an object that can be manipulated by these joints.

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Possibilities_1st

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Early 3D Models

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First shot at 3D

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generator-path/container-traps of particles under one MOTIF

2007-10-04T17:47:00.001-07:00

working in maya, then adding a skin and manipulating further

Metrix

2007-10-04T17:31:00.001-07:00

Possibilities

2007-10-04T16:32:00.001-07:00

Numbers

2007-10-04T15:51:00.000-07:00

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I constructed my 2d diagram in 3d in Rhino- using the 3d motion of the falling man as reference. Then I exported into Maya, where I am trying to construct an object composed of joints.

All together now

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Latest Version

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another generic example

2007-10-02T17:25:00.000-07:00

here is a generic example of how these vector fields work in 2d, but in multi-directions... still only a grid that is representing the vector field. when moving towards a 3d field, the grid is lost...

magnetic fields

2007-10-02T17:03:00.000-07:00

I found a plugin on http://en.wiki.mcneel.com that is allowing me to simulation magnetic fields in 2 and 3 dimensions.... still learning how to use it... here is a sample of how a negatively charged and positively charged point affects the field... here the field is represented with vector arrows (which is similar to my original mapping of the camera movement), but the program allows me to also produce other types of representations... those will come...

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The latest

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Another version of my diagram.

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Combination of diagrams & Alternate diagrams using the same method of documenting movement.

minjia

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Zhong CHEN. "Rhythm of Rainbow"

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software links

2007-09-11T18:57:00.000-07:00

Here are some links that might be helpful:

First of all, the google directory here

Then colorspace and photoshop plug-ins here, here and here. An image analysis software list.
Also, generally speaking about free software, blender and inkscape are very good solutions, and two last links that you might need later on when we move into 3 dimentions: isosurf and sculpture generator.
Keep in mind that those are just examples. You can find much more things in relation to what you are doing... and if you do, you can post the links here.

Potemkin Fall

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For class today

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Please don't forget that by class today you should have posted a jpeg of your work in progress.

Thanks!

2007-09-06T16:50:00.001-07:00

I plan to map the movement of a man falling down in the Battleship Potemkin.
I'm trying to establish the anchor points that the man falls around.

2007-09-06T16:16:00.000-07:00

I am doing birds and mapping the birds as they fly in from the building

Mapping

2007-09-06T16:13:00.000-07:00

I am working on Birds during the first 18 seconds of the clip and mapping negative space.

Matt

2007-09-06T07:25:00.000-07:00

I have been trying to import the birds into premier pro and it isn't working. I get a message that it doesn't recognize the compression format. Also tried to print screen from windows media and quick time -- not working as well. Please email me at pat.grierson@gmail.com or if you could stop by the studio.

Dimitris or Matt

2007-09-05T16:50:00.000-07:00

I have a question regarding the possible change in class time for either of you but cannot get a hold of your email addresses. Please email me at josiek@wustl.edu if you get this before class tomorrow. Thank you.

books on reserve

2007-09-04T20:16:00.000-07:00

This is a list of the books that will be soon on reserve in the library. The 3 categories are just meant to help you navigate through the list.

Architecture + Design:

- Genetic architectures = Arquitecturas genéticas. (NA2543.T43 G46 2003)

- Digital tectonics / edited by Neil Leach, David Turnbull, Chris Williams. (NA2750 .D464 2004)

- Tooling / Benjamin Aranda & Chris Lasch (NA2728 .A58 2006)

- Abstract space : beneath the media surface / Therese Tierney. (NA2584 .T54 2007)

- Architecture in the digital age: design and manufacturing / edited by Branko Kolarevic. (NA2543.T43 A724 2003 )

- Erwin Hauer : continua : architectural screens and walls / by Erwin Hauer ; designed by John T. Hill. (NK1412.H38 A4 2004)

- Demonstrating digital architecture : 5th Far Eastern international digital architectural design award / edited by Yu-Tung Liu. (NA2543.T43 D45 2005)

Architecture / Theory

- Earth moves : the furnishing of territories / Bernard Cache ; translated by Anne Boyman ; edited by Michael Speaks (NA2765 C2813 1995)

- Constructions / John Rajchman. (NA680 R333 1998)

- Peter Eisenman : feints / edited by Silvio Cassarà. (NA737 E33 R4 1993)

- Olafur Eliasson : surroundings surrounded : essays on space and science / edited by Peter Weibel. (N7153.O43 A4 2001)

- Abstract space : beneath the media surface / Therese Tierney. (NA2584 .T54 2007)

- Digital tectonics / edited by Neil Leach, David Turnbull, Chris Williams. (NA2750 .D464 2004)

Theory

- A thousand plateaus : capitalism and schizophrenia / Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari ; translation and foreword by Brian Massumi (B77 D413 1987)

- Cinema / Gilles Deleuze ; translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam (PN1995 D4313 1986)

- Foucault / Gilles Deleuze ; translated and edited by Seán Hand ; foreword by Paul Bové (B2430 F724 D4413 1988)

- Francis Bacon : the logic of sensation / Gilles Deleuze ; translated and with an introduction by Daniel W. Smith ; afterword by Tom Conley. (ND497.B16 D413 2004)

- Becomings : explorations in time, memory, and futures / edited by Elizabeth Grosz. (BD638 .B355 1999)

- On growth and form / by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (QP84 T4 1959)

2007-09-04T13:15:00.000-07:00

I would like to map the sound of House of the Flying Daggers.

2007-09-04T12:49:00.000-07:00

I would like to do the Battleship Potemkin and map the sounds.

house of the flying daggers

2007-09-04T06:27:00.000-07:00

there has not been much discussion about who is selecting which films. i guess i'm just going to assume that i will work on the house of the flying daggers? if so, i'm very much interested in exploring the color in this film as well as the sound. perhaps there is a relationship. i am not sure yet.

does anyone else have comments or would like to select a film?

2007-09-02T20:45:00.000-07:00

I would like to work on the third film, The Battleship Potemkin, and map the depth of an object (or objects) in space. I'm also willing to map sound if no one else wants to do it for that film.

Happy mapping...

sound analysis

2007-08-31T16:51:00.000-07:00

For those that are interested in working with the sound of the scenes, those two links might be useful.
software for bioacoustics
wikipedia
I am sure that you can find much more with a small search online...

the movies

2007-08-31T15:30:00.000-07:00

So, here is some information on the four movies that we will be working with:

1. The Dolls
Takeshi Kitano
2002 (Japan)

2. House of the Flying Daggers
Zhang Yimou
2004 (China)

3. The Battleship Potemkin
Sergei Eisenstein
1925 (USSR)

4.
The birds
Alfred Hitchcock
1963 (USA)

I will try to have the last one on the courses drive asap.

2007-08-30T19:22:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to give this a try and make sure that I can actually post.

I also wanted to throw it out there that I'm interested in the second film that was played in class. I'm not sure what the title of it was...

Shifting Lines to Surface - Virtual to Empirical

2007-08-30T13:26:00.000-07:00

“The diagram is no longer an auditory or visual archive but a map, a cartography that is coextensive with the whole social field. It is an abstract machine. It is defined by its informal functions and matter and in terms of form makes no distinction between content and expression. It is a machine that is almost blind and mute, even though it makes others see and speak. […] It never functions in order to represent a persisting world but produces a new kind of reality, a new model of truth.”

Gilles Deleuze

“Complexity thus does not consist in the One that is said in many ways, but rather in the fact that each thing may always diverge, or fold, onto others, as in the ever-forking paths in Borges’s fabled garden”

John Rajchman

Aim of this class is to introduce the students to a ‘diagrammatic’ way of thinking, according to which, any given ‘field’ can be mapped in such a way that will transform it into something new. The function of the diagram, as understood in the context of this class, is not to interpret or represent, but rather to invent.

Starting material for the class are four scenes from four different films, detached from their original context. Those scenes are going to be mapped by the students that will produce 2dimentional diagrams. The output of this process is going to be used as the input for a new set of diagrams that this time will aim at the invention or discovery of a system. The process is going to be repeated again, in three dimensions, creating this way a series of transformations that will produce each time a new diagram or map. As said above, the scope of those diagrams is not to interpret the original film or to represent what is already there, but to discover or invent systems that are not obvious in the images that we initially perceive.

Computer tools are going to be used in order for the above process to take place. CAD/CAM technology will be employed in order to construct physical models of the diagrams created in the computer.