THESIS DEVELOPMENTI

Julieta Aguilerafall 2004

previous works

Works that have lead me to where I am now.

panoramas

Organizing the image around the viewer.

polyhedra

Mapping the image on a grid around the viewer.

animagina

Exploration on spatial references, scale and metaphors arranged grammatically.

game

Moving around a space, molding this space to the viewer’s motion.

Moving the camera over the two dimensional space of a moebius stripe, in three dimensions.

moebius

virtual reality and design

Interest in the way we experience arrangements of images in depth.

the grid

Main Entry: grid Pronunciation: 'grid Function: noun2 a (1) : a perforated or ridged metal plate used as a

conductor in a storage battery (2) : an electrode consisting of a mesh or a spiral of fine wire in an electron tube (3) : a network of conductors for distribution of electric power; also : a network of radio or television stations b : a network of uniformly spaced horizontal and perpendicular lines (as for locating points on a map); also : something resembling such a network <a road grid>

the grid: design principle

In Design, a grid not only aids in locating points in a map but also relates them to a scale unit. A grid unit usually covers the minimum distinguishable size of all the parts being displayed into a common form.

In broad terms, good design usually means both pattern (units) and general form are both recognizable in a composition.

pattern and form in VR

Polyhedra have regular faces, which can hold pattern units , and relate these different units to each other as you move your gaze around the whole space that surrounds you.

Sometimes the form of looking around these faces may not make sense in three dimensional space. Such is the case of the moebius stripe.

thesis project

Explore multidimensional grids for design purposes.

Move the camera between centers of polytopes

polytope

A regular polytope is a generalization of the Platonic solids to an arbitrary dimension. For n dimensions there are only three regular convex polytopes: the hypercube, cross polytope, and regular simplex, which are analogs of the cube, octahedron, and tetrahedron (Coxeter 1969; Wells 1991, p. 210).

first attempt

Stellating a tetrahedron which will eventually move the camera between centers of tetrahedrons.

One of the patterns we can recognize at very small scales is a person’s gait. I expect this interpolated motion to be the form of my project, like a minimalist painting of dots.