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November 16, 2005
Video Remodelling
Spatial Design Final Project Proposal
Title:
Video Remodelling
Keywords to describe our project:
Abstract reconstruction
Live Video
Perspective
Point of view
Scale
Space
Viewer inclusion
The general scope of ideas:
Increase the visitor’s awareness and enjoyment of the physical space they are in at ITP. We aim to shift perspective and emphasize point of view though the reconstruction of physical spaces using scale models and live video.
We propose to build a small-scale model based on the video image from camera located somewhere in ITP(camera_1). A second camera(camera_2) will be place inside the model to reconstruct the first camera’s point of view. Both camera images will be layered over each other and displayed on a laptop screen next to the model.
The model itself will not be a complete 3 dimensional replication of the physical space, but rather an abstract reconstruction based on camera_1’s point of view. By using flat, 2D pieces, placed at varying distances from camera_2 we will create a perspective that is only representational the original.
Camera_1’s point of view should include the model being displayed. This will also include the viewers in the superimposed image on the laptop display creating the illusion that the viewers’ are within the model they are viewing.
Our intention is to give the visitor a greater awareness of the spatial architecture of ITP, as opposed to only focussing on what is contained within that architecture. We also want to bring their attention to the live aspect of the movement of people through that space, and their presence within it.
This project has similarities to Michael Snow’s white room, but it is different in several ways:
1. We are not using projection
2. We are not using the actual space, but rather a scale reconstruction of the space
3. It invites movement through the space, whereas the illusion of the white room would have been broken by the shadows cast by people in the space.
Resources available to us: 2 laptops, video cameras (personal and from ER), firewire extension cables, firewire hub, Jitter.
Missing elements: Possibly a faster cpu, like a G5, matching cameras and wide angle lenses. Also, we need a team of 3 or 4 to make this happen.
Posted by Leif Mangelsen at November 16, 2005 09:40 AM