Project 2: Review

I must say that I have learned a lot in this class. I have been introduced to materials and concepts that I didn't know about. I feel like this class has changed my viewpoint towards architecture...and in other words has opened my eyes. As far as the final project and the review goes, I deeply regret not being a ble to get an animation done that adressed both of the issues that I had analyzed in the proces. Yet, I still value what I have gotten out of the process and hope to expand upon in more in the future.

Project 2: Animations

ANIM #1: Initial Concept
ANIM #2: Transition from line to plane - volume - vertical line - point -- as it appears in the movie
ANIM #3: The sequence of the movement of the characters during the scene

Series Anim
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Project 2: Concept Models + Diagrams

More models and a new diagram. This diagram is more of an abstract illustration of the transitions of line-plane-point-volume from the beginning to the end of the clip. The diagram bellow starts with a volume and ends with another volume which is the way the clip stars and ends.



This model represents the transition from point to line to plane to volume. When looked at from the side the points can be seen, from above the lines, and at an angle the planes and the volume. Well...that was the intent, but I don't believe it turned out to be as clear as I wanted it to be.

Project 2: process

The model bellow was inspired by the previous readings on perspective, orthography, and projection. The model seeks to diagram a plane which becomes a part of an orthographic volume (not precisely orthographic since we can’t see that way but a representation of it), and then transitions into a point by using a forced perspective and then a line that is only there as reference for distance. Using this mini-model I was able to only confuse myself for an hour and nothing else…

...I think it has potential for something that I haven’t figured out yet.

Project 2: actualizing process

For my new analysis of the movie clip from The Memoirs of a Geisha, I paid more attention to understanding what goes on within the frame as far as points, lines, planes, and volumes are involved. I noticed how (in the beginning specifically) there is a clear transition from a plane to volume to point and then to line and began to follow this pattern throughout the clip. The animation that you see bellow is a simple representation of this transition.

Pt.line.pln.vol
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Based on this analysis I built a physical model that 3-dimensionally presents the transitions from line to point to plane to volume and so on.

When viewing the model, the viewer’s eyes would be the camera and the by moving the object around in a prescribed way you would be able to see the transitions that happen throughout the clip. I have taken several shots of the model and tried to diagram them to the best of my ability…but to put it in simple terms; you would move the model around to see these transitions in the order of their occurrence in the film.

Project: 2..

Stereotomic Permutations
By Preston Scott Cohen



This article was one of the shortest yet most difficult articles of the semesters for me. I tried very hard and still wasn’t able to get a full grasp (if any), of how Cohen comes to those projections. From what I understand, Stereotomy is basically the visualization through which perspective and orthography are combined in order to create a better understanding and experimentation of the designed form. This system breaks the limits of orthography and perspective in order to bring about a limitless viewpoint where the form can be measured and studied from any angle and at any level.


The word stereonomy reminded me of the stereoscope which is a device that forces a 3D illusion using two dimensional images. The way it works is that it uses what they call “stereographic cards,” that contain two separate pictures (and slightly different pictures based on the angle it is viewed from by each eye) side by side. When these cars are viewed with the stereoscope the eyes are forced to diverge and the 2d images appear to become three images where the third image is the central image in-between the two with a 3d depth effect. That image is the one that we see.




In this case the image in-between is one that is centered between perspective and orthography, where we are visually boundless and where the representation of form is presented in a way that takes into account the way that the human eye functions…kind of like the stereoscope.

PROJECT: 2b

Memoirs_Of_Geisha

Here is the piece from the movie Memoirs of Geisha that has a very elegant and somewhat rhythmic camera movement as well as character movement. The diagrams from the previous posting should be more clear now that the clip is available!

The three images bellow seize to follow the movement of the camera through the space. The two curves set above one another were to frame the view for an animation which was discouraged by Professor Ambrose. The animation therefore was never completed and the process was guided towards a new direction which focused more on the analysis of the surrounding rather than only the movement of the camera.

RECOMBINANT SEQUENCE

The two-dimensional diagram above puts the characters' path into perspective. Where the lines intersect would be where the characters meet and where they fade would be where they are no longer within the boundaries of the frame. Different colors represent the different characters. The sequence begins with the color blue where the woman walks down the corridor. The relative change in color is representative of the passage of time. The image bellow is a plan view of the characters' movements during the scene.