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Next video loop of my 3d Projection mapped sculpture (Permutation 030) combines 2D, 3D, Digital, And Physical. The size of the sculpture is: 14,5 * 14,5 * 4 cm. Painted in rough, dull grey. Working on a better surface for the next sculpture, more UV-mappings and interactivity for parametric animations in the next installation.
Photos taken from my 3 day alphagraph workshop in Metz, France. The workshop took place at ESAL Metz art school with 12 students. The basic setup was this :
DAY 1 - explore letter forms with a new digital tool.
DAY 2 - laser cut and make the letters
DAY 3 - print with a printing press
alphagraph is a small parametric tool developed in Processing for exploring letter forms. More can be read at the following address:
github.com/FreeArtBureau/alphaGraph
Another workshop of this kind had been conducted at ESAD Amiens in March 2016. Further details about this on the website workshop-lettrine-01.esad-amiens.fr/
A two-part mold created in a fused deposition modeling rapid prototyping machine. Used to create a chess knight of glycerin soap.
A City Mall in Frankfurt featuring organic curves and a parametric glass facade construction droping through the building.
Please don't use this image without my explicit permission. © 2016 [Benjamin Cann] - All rights reserved
Generative semantic typography is a project by Matteo Moretti, a workshop where participants produces generatives artifacts through a series of semantic experimentation. This process allows to separate the design and code, first reflecting on the relation between visual and verbal comunication on a word and only then implement it in an algorithm that will produce infinite variations of the same generating idea.
The parametric surface described by the equations:
x = u - u^3/3 + u*v^2
y = -v - u^2*v + v^3/3
z = u^2 - v^2
u,v plotted from -1.7 .... 1.7.
This surface is a minimal surface known as the "Enneper Surface". The mesh was generated in Blender 2.79 and and rendered using the Cycles Rendering engine. Thickness has been added to the surface and a pattern of hexagons have been mapped across it.
Selfridges seen at night from Park Street in Birmingham, near the bus stop for buses bound for the Stratford Road.
Missed my previous bus, and had to wait another 10 or 11 minutes for the next one!
Cars seem to have a habit down here of breaking the speed limit (some idiots showing off). Sure it's a 30mph zone.
CCTV in the bus lanes.
It was getting late, so I got a no 37 bus, rather than wait half an hour for a 6.
Interactive Parametrics Workshop w/ Studio Mode and MakerBot, Feb 19-21, 2011. Processing, MakerBots and people who know about making objects.
Subdivision of a quad using a 2D algorithm derived from Catmull Clark and Doo Sabin. For further images and information see:
Playing with Sine and Cosine functions. All of my postings are single object drawn by a pair of parametric equations. I'm imposing the constraint of "single object drawn by a pair of parametric equations" and seeing what I can do within the confines of that constraint.
I was surprised to be able to get the square pattern in the middle via (the typically circles and loops) Sine and Cosine functions. And that square shape is part of the same equation that generates the 4 lobes.
Architects: Zaha Hadid Architects, 2011.Now for something completely different. As they used to say in Monty Python Flying Circus.
This is the entrance elevation facing the Car Park. Please note the photo of the conceptual model of this project in comments below.
My long awaited visit to this building was in two parts. The late evening sun meant the museum was not open, very few people were to be seen around because of buildings secluded position. Every gentle curve, slightest change of angle with beautifully crafted metal covering with raised seams accentuated by the golden sun was beautiful indeed. The boundaries between architecture and art were truly blurred. The building's location on site was excellent and sensitive delicate landscaping gave the whole experience an extra flip.
The disappointment of not seeing the inside was acceptable and almost welcome as I was very tired and happy to come and revisit the inside the next day.
Science Centre, Glasgow Tower and BBC are visible in the background.
Brandon Clifford (Matter Design Studio) was this year's LeFevre fellow, and the first since Nick Gelpi to organize his project as a large-scale fabrication or physical proof-of-concept. This vault, construcked of vouissoir-like milled-plywood modules, is the latest in a longer series of MDS projects interested in reviving the concept of stereotomy in a digital age. Rather than lean on the habit of using digital fabrication technology to make screens out of planar material, the partnership has been trying to develop a 21st-century method for carving away at volumetric material that can work in compression.
It's a really interesting project generally, and as a step along the way I think this is a very successful work. The idea is that, in a kind of Grasshopper version of Gaudi (or really, Maillart), material is eliminated where it's not needed to bear loads. So the members of the "honeycomb" get hollowed out, following the supervised dictations of scripting software. The potential architecturalization (not necessarily the goal here) seems pretty rich: one could build an all-compressive vault, out of manageable units, that still admits light. Cool! Obviously there would be some issues of detailing and weatherproofing and so on, but the concept is there. The installation as built has some minor compromises, presumably to comply with the safety requirements of a public university; this doesn't seem like a flaw, though, because it is a proof-of-concept, with limited budget and materials. So of course it's partially attached to the gallery's lighting tracks - it would have to be a lot bigger to use the walls for lateral bracing.
It's a compelling thing visually, and an interesting line of material research conceptually. Maybe my favorite thing is the surface texture; since the milling is done with the side of the router bit (a process apparently known as swarfing), the result doesn't have to go through a laborious process of sanding to get a continuous curve, so long as the design is conceived from the start as a set of ruled surfaces (another constraint on the parametric system!). Anyway, it's consequently much more touchable than most "plywood + CNC" projects tend to be. Good stuff.
Experiment in the serial nature of parametric logic. 25 unique objects are generated by a single algorithm, differentiated by randomized input parameter. This process reveals clusters or typologies of certain forms that the system is likely to produce.
Each model is approx 7 cm in radius, with a typical height of 10 cm.
subdivision of a column, generated using processing.
see www.michael-hansmeyer.com/html/solids/p0.html for further images and info
As Trinity United Church in Grimsby, Ontario is engaged in the search for a new minister, the Reverend Alan Minarcik has taken on that role in the interim period. Born in New York City he obtained his higher education at the State University of New York in Albany after which he taught secondary school until 1965. He then entered the seminary to fulfill his calling and was a pastor at a Pennsylvania church for five years. In 1978 Reverend Minarcik moved to Canada and served as pastor to a St Catharines, Ontario congregation. He is currently semi-retired and lives in Beamsville, Ontario.
On November 11, 2018, I had attended a service to commemorate those who served and sacrifice in two world wars and Reverend Minarcik presided over that service. As one of the church members was engaged in a reading, Reverend Minarcik seated himself on a bench that was illuminated by the stained glass windows to the left of this frame. It struck me that his pose was reminiscent of the images of historic monarchs, emperors and popes as they were represented in commemorative medallions and coins struck during their reigns. I was unable to capture that moment but in a chat after the service, I explained my concept and I asked if he would be willing to sit for a portrait. Fortunately he agreed and this is the result.
My original plan was to light him from my right using a pair of large octo-boxes with strobes. Test shots simply did not capture what I was looking for. Just as I was about to give up, the sun broke through the clouds outside and a beam penetrated to the Reverend’s back and lit up the area. The natural light image was much better than my strobe attempts. I captured one frame, the sun went back behind the clouds and the session was over. - JW
Date Taken: 2018-11-14
Tech Details:
Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D7100 fitted with a Tamron 90mm f/2.8 Macro 1:1 lense (272E), Daylight WB, ISO100, Aperture priority mode, f/5.6, 1/6 sec with an EV+0.67 exposure bias. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: scale image to 6000x9000 and enable post-resize sharpening (edges only), crop image to 3x4 ratio, set exposure compensation to EV-0.38 (darker than as-shot), adjust Tone curve 2 using parametric model to brighten the darks slightly and significantly darken the highlights to get detail in the white hair, enable Shadows/Highlights and significantly recover highlights (never did get detail in the blown out area on his shoulders/back), use the Graduated Neutral Density/GND filter to slightly darken the top left corner to better match the tonality of the rest of the wall, adjusted the white balance to reduce the stained-glass-window-induced red colour cast, save. PP in free Open Source GIMP 2.10.6: to handle the different adjustments related to colour balance for the face and the vestments, the image was copied to three layers – top one for the stole (coloured piece on chest), the middle layer for face adjustments and the bottom layer for the ‘white’ robe, added a black/transparent layer mask to the middle and top layers and then painted in the face using white paint on the middle layer and the the stole on the top layer, used the colour balance tools as well as the tone curve tool to adjust each layer separately, did some L-A-B mode Chromaticity boost for the stole layer, use a small soft-edged brush to dodge/brighten the eye white areas, cloned out some skin imperfections on the face layer, clone out a protruding dark area upper right corner on the bottom layer, created new working layer from visible result, sharpened (unsharp mask), save, scaled image to 4500x6000, sharpened slightly, saved, added fine black-and-white frame, added bar and text on left, saved, scaled image to 2048 high for posting online, sharpened slightly, saved.