Implant
Compose & Intrepret Contemporary Still Life
Course: SCI 6338 Introduction to Computational Design
Instructor: Jose Luis
Collaborator: Ana Loayza, Haochen Zhang
Date: Oct.-Nov., 2020
This project explores possible form of ordinary objects in our life by showing the incomplete form of them.
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Incompleteness, has the meaning of changing and in process, which means the unstableness and dynamic status reside in itself. The meaning of object relies on its original form and texture. By changing the long-lasting recognition towards certain objects to create “familiar stranger” in the composition.
KEYWORDS:
Contemporary Still Life, Incompleteness, Object Recognition, Compose and Interpret
OBJECTIVES
1. Find some inspiration, think of a message, or consider a story you may want to tell with this still life.
2. Choose a collection of real-world objects for your composition. There is no limit/boundaries/requirements of what these might be: everyday objects, very singular ones, in/animate, people, parts of other objects, etc.
3. Take a real image of a composition of these objects. This doesn't have to (and hopefully will not) be the same as your digital composition, it is just for the sake of documentation/comparison.
4. 3D-Scan the chosen objects using the workflows described in the attached documents or any other of your own. The goal is to obtain colored 3D meshes from them.
5. Compose these objects into a still life. You are welcome to do this statically (import the meshes in Rhino and place/rotate/scale/transform them manually) or procedurally (do the same process with components/code in Grasshopper), whichever one serves your purpose better. If you asked me, you probably know which method I would choose! :)
6. With your composition in place, now create a digital interpretation of it. Use mesh information and manipulation techniques to represent the still life in a way that conveys a message, renders a different visualization, displays the objects in a different way… altogether creating a new interpretation of these objects.
Hacker level:
7. Does this life have to be still? Can the composition and/or interpretation techniques change over time? Is it an animation rather than a image?
Inspiration
Implants
Deconstruction
This project explores possible form of ordinary objects in our life by showing the incomplete form of them. Incompleteness, has the meaning of changing and in process, which means the unstableness and dynamic status reside in itself.
Implant
The meaning of object relies on its original form and texture. By changing the long-lasting recognition towards certain objects to create “familiar stranger” in the composition.
Methodology
Ordinary Still Life
Photograph of original objects
Composition of scanned objects
Methodology
Qlone 3D Scanning
Click to learn more about Qlone.
Methodology
Mesh Manipulation in Grasshopper C#
Experiment
Algorithm Process
ASSIGN TEXTURE
The components attaches texture
to meshes for future rendering
REDUCE MESHES
The components reduce the number of original meshes for easy operation
BOOLEAN OPERATION
The components generate Boolean difference and Boolean intersection forms from original scanned objects and new generated spheres
Experiment
Algorithm Process - Parameters
1. NUMBER OF VOID
CONTROL THE TOTAL NUMBER OF THE RANDOM SPHERES GENERATED
2. POSITION OF VOID
CONTROL THE RELATIVE COORDINATE OF THE RANDOM SPHERES IN THE ORIGINIAL OBJECTS
3. DEPTH OF VOID
CONTROL THE RELATIVE SIZE OF THE RANDOM SPHERES TO CONTROL THE DEPTH OF EROTION
Experiment
Deconstruction - Eating
Shows the process of basic deconstruction in the form of eating (daily process of deconstructing things)
Experiment
Deconstruction - Erosion
Shows the process of basic deconstruction in the form of erosion (daily process of deconstructing things)
Experiment
Broken Art
