Lines and revolution

The new surface was created by extracting the lines from the diagram and experimenting with multiple interventions of the revolve tool. The final surface was the result of revolving all of the lines together on the y-axis at 280 degrees. The 2d diagram shown was a exploded into series of layers that corresponded to the different scenes in the abstracted clip. This created about 15 planes of lines that when revolved created the dynamic shape shown here. The revolve tool was chosen because the entire clip is based on the two men circling a vague point in space while they try to get a good line of sight on one another.

Heat Abstracted - new video

In “Between Surface and Substance” Surface Consciousness, Mark Burry explores the relationship of form making, parametric creation, and artistic import. The article makes me consider the value of designing through digitally derived permutations of form. Is it just form making for the sake of making previously unseen forms. I think it some cases this has become the modus operandi for designers.

This misuse and misunderstanding of how digital technology is maybe inevitable. It might be akin to architects using books on classical architecture simply as a kit parts by which they could "design" a building. In more mindful hands, however, it seems that this new way of thinking about form may allow the architect to derive spaces, form, and experiences, that could not have been imagined. The craft is, as it always was, to control the variables and constraints that guide the design.

Abstracted Animation

In this animation the movie clip is further abstracted to show the camera views as individual spot lights, the two men as simple cylinders, and the gun sight lines as transparent planes. The animation involves moving lights that turn on and off in a way that coincides with the clip. The camera views for the animation present a new look from within the scene by taking a third-person views of the movement around the space.

The animation and camera cuts are not quite smooth yet but the overall idea suggests the making of a dynamic space created by the camera views and the sight lines which create a sort of rotation around the center space. Primarily, though, the space is created by the two points (the cylinders) and the line created between them. The line rotates around the space as the two points try to avoid/locate one another.

The next task will be to reinterpret this space into a surface that is a dynamic and directed as the one in the created in the clip and the animation.