100304 - midterm

In these transformations...every point may change its place, every line its curvature, every area its magnitude; but on the other hand every point and every line continues to exist, and keeps its relative order and position throughout all distortions and transformations.

- D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
On Growth and Form, 1942

Plan your time well and work efficiently to prepare for your midterm Thursday, March 11. Do not, however, work for the sake of production alone. Clarify conceptual aspects of your project while developing documents that communicate your ideas.

 

Emergence Design Group – Skin panel study
incremental change, difference in degree

M.C. Escher – Metamorphosis Drawings
incremental change, difference in kind

FURTHER DEVELOPMENT

Focus your efforts on refining the gradient field model, tracking document, animation, and if necessary, completion of the landscape wiring:

• The gradient field model must operate relative to the movement of sunlight throughout the day and year. It must contain a ‘change in degree’ gradient (see example above).
• The tracking document must show the operation of the gradient field in a perspective view of the model with rendered shadows, a top view of rendered shadows, and a drafted section with constructed shadows. These images and drawings must show different moments of time superimposed, and in series of filmstrip-like still frames.
• The animation must show the development of five neologisms and segue three of these neologisms into a transformation tracked though changing lighting conditions and/or scalar shifts. Draw on all of your work (including gradient field and tracking document) to produce the animation.
• The landscape wiring must have a clear, high-level organization that extends from the geometry of the landscape. It must have surface-like qualities and an identity ‘separate’ from the landscape.

MIDTERM REQUIREMENTS

The midterm will be a comprehensive review of all work to date. Present the following:

• 2 dunesape images (9” x 9”, can be in color)
• 2 dunescape maps (18” x 18”, with grayscale image of dunescape)
• material analysis drawings
• 5 unit models
• 1 cluster model
• landscape with completed wiring
• sunlight study filmstrips
• completed gradient field model
• completed tracking document
• animation with neologisms and transformations
• 5 neologisms with definitions (9” x 9” sheet)

All work on the wall (including filmstrips) must fit in the 9” x 9” grid, no exceptions!