Disrupting 3D ModelsEverardo Reyes

Université Paris 13

CAC.3 | Nov. 27, 2012. Paris

Beyond figures

...toward the study of plastic properties in digital images

Why?to contribute to visual literacy

to try to understand, culturally, visual features in digital media

to foster aesthetic provocations

2D & 3Dspatial distribution

Pixelation filtermainly based on colors

Find edges filtermainly based on shapes

Color scheme 2D distribution made with Rainbow 1.5 (Firefox addon)

List ot color library 2D distributionmade with Rainbow 1.5 (Firefox addon)

Color space visualization 3D distribution made with Color Inspector 3D (ImageJ plugin)

Distributing according to different rules

Hyper-Paintmade with Processing (Irene Gersenowies, 2008)

Exploding 2D Image in 3D Space,made with Processing (E. Reyes, 2012)

Generating Cubes Randomly,made with MEL in Autodesk Maya (E. Reyes, 2012)

Generating Spheres Fractally,made with PyMEL in Autodesk Maya (E. Reyes, 2012)

Disrupting 3D Models,made with Processing (E. Reyes, 2012)

Exploration through interface: parametrizing

Invitation to 3D print a disrupted model?

the POV of visual semiotics

Plastic Signs != Figurative Signs

They are visual elements

We approach them by means of no figurative association, or

representation to the physical world

They complete iconic and iconographic signs

TexturemesColoremes Figuremes

textural element

textural repetition

hue

brigthness

saturation

position

dimension

direction

The expression plane of plastic signs

These are plastic categories which can be measured, mixed,

remixed, and analyzed

When assembled, they create plastic formants... we move toward

other meanings, a plastic language

Greimas said: there is homologation between plastic categories and

meaning, at the form level

Abstract as they are, they may foster meaning effects:

roundness/harshness, flat/jagged, union/dispersion, small/tall, stretched/

squashed.

But is it possible to say that these meaning effects are homological? Is there

a universal or an ideal shape of harshness? Is it useful to categorize plastic

formants? What happens if there is no figurative background as reference?

Motion Structures:

disrupting + indexical

Inception (Nolan, 2010) Paris fold-over sequence

Paris fold-over sequence. Seq. 10

A Kinetic sculpture

Game of Thrones Title Sequence

Average brightness of frames

STL object

optimized for our software

from Web to other media?

CAC.3 websitemade with Tilt (Firefox addon)

Gracias

Everardo Reyes

Université Paris 13