MRes Information Environments Final Show Photos
Creating Interstitial Space – ‘Mind The Gap’
Essay exploring ideas coming out of the 2nd Life Project (click on link below)
Creating Interstitial Space – ‘Mind The Gap’
Time Perspectives and the digital world
Fantastic thought provoking film about our relationship to time, the impact of digital environments, and how this might impact what makes us happy. Terrific visualisation/animation.
Happiness Mapping
What would you find on a map of what makes people happy? Thinking about how to build up the elements for each participant to give their own ‘Happiness Map’, which can guide them when they get ‘lost’
Making the history of LCC physical – Prospectus Scans
Today the high resolution scans of the prospectus front covers finally arrived!
I’ve been working with Richard Daniels (& Wendy Russell) in the archive centre and for various reasons of preservation they have to carefully scan the covers themselves (and charge me 70p a pop!)
So I now have 24 very high resolution tiff scans (each one c. 24mb), and I plan to crop them and then look at a range of possible way to realise something physical from them.
- layer the images will varying opacity in photoshop to produce 1 layered image combining all the covers which could then be projected (onto a model of LCC or within LCC onto the built environment or as a 3d holographic image with lasers), or printed onto acetate or within a perspex block etc.
- I could also take this layered image and use relief mapping in cinema 4d to produce a 3d surface based on the greyscale values in the layered image and then laser cut this surface to get a model
- 1 route that particularly appealed was to print faint copies of the individual images onto acetates and then to repeat this and lay the acetates on top of each other sticking them together to make a ‘brick’ through which you could look over a light box , or through which you could project light
- another idea is to reference the double-helix shape of DNA, and map the images individually or the layered image onto a double-helix structure and then print this stucture – perhaps I could print the images onto acetate and then cut/twist/distort them to give a double-helix structure, a sort of hanging.
There may now not be time to achieve these things ahead of submission deadline but I hope to realise one of these ideas in the next month.
Example prospectus cover scan:
Interpolated / Extrapolated Nurbs Surfaces
Ok let’s look at a specific example of finding the interpolated/extrapolated ‘Z’ value for a new point on the matrix.
Let’s look at a point at x=35, y=55, z=? This point lies between Chelsea (65,100,24) and Wimbledon (0,0,140) on the ‘clockface’ of the map.
I’m going to look at the rate of increase of ‘Z’ per unit of distance for each vertex/college where we have calculated results, and then look at the angles between a line drawn from LCC (90,100,0) to the new point (35,55,?) and the lines between LCC and Chelsea and LCC and Wimbledon. I can then use the ratios of these angles to calculate an ‘angle’ weighted rate of ‘Z’ increase per unit distance for the new point and multiply this by the distance between the point and LCC – see below for my scribblings working out the general method and then starting on this specific vertex bottom left.
See below the trigonometric diagram to help calculate the ‘Z’ value for x=35, y=55
See below the calculations for this new point, to interpolate the ‘Z’, height (time saving in mins car over walking).
This technique can be applied to each vertex on the matrix to give ‘Z’ values for input into for example a NURBS surface in Vectorworks.
