May 10 & 11 5pm-9pm
Spring Show 2005
721 Broadway
at Waverly Place
4th Floor
South Elevators
New York, NY 10003
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| Plane Spaces | ||
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| Author(s): | Henry Harvey Paul Feder Ernesto Rios Raymond Dickerson |
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| Instructor: | Gauthier, Jean-Marc | |
| Class: | Spatial Design | |
| Keywords: | interior spaces, tunnels, subway, 3D, 2D, immersive, projection | |
| Plane Spaces is a virtual space
created by an interactive installation of still photographs of tunnels and other spaces. These images will be projected onto a curved surface to make the environment more submersive. | ||
| By taking 2D photographs and projecting them onto (virtual) 3D spaces we give new life to static images. Then by taking the virtual 3D images and projecting them onto an actual 3D screen we bring these images to a state somewhere in between 2 and 3D.Ê In this state the mind is free to wander, set free in a landscape outside of ordinary spatial dimensions. | ||
| Personal Statement: | We believe that the use of 2D space can sometimes be more evocative of 3D reality than 3D virtual reality. This is because 3D virtual reality systems are more abstract than 2D systems. 3D virtual reality imposes its own language which clashes with our natural experience of 3D space. | |
| Background: | Everyone has the experience of moving through 3D space. They also are used to contextualizing 3D space into a two dimensional window. We seek to take that 2D window and put it in the framework of a 3D immersive experience. | |
| Audience: | Any visually abled person. | |
| User Scenario: | The user will navigate through the
space via a joystick connected to the computer. By manipulating the joystick, different images will be projected onto a screen. | |
| Technical System Description: | The images were produced using Virtools software to simulate a
series of planes with images on them.Ê By manipulating a joystick, the user can move between these planes, going forward and backward, faster and slower. The system requires a computer using Virtools software, a video projector, a screen to project on and a set of computer speakers. | |
| Project References, Research and Literature: | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinemascope
http://www.laser-magic.com/holographicprojection.html http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/projection/classification/ http://www.eg.org/EG/CGF/Volume12/issue2/v12i2pp137-158_abstract.html http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/docs/forum/polytope/ | |
| Conclusions: | Somewhere in between 2D and 3D lies another realm we could call 2 1/D. This realm challenges the viewer with a dissonance: is it 2D or 3D. This cognitive dissonance forces the user to give in to the seductiveness of the images and join us on a journey through a labyrinth of spaces. | |