P006 Deliberation and Detail
Location: Los Angeles
Program: Self-Directed Research
Status: Concept
Year: 2023
In today’s world, images are the medium to communicate information. Images are produced in different ways, including physical media or through a combination of data. In architecture, images represent meaning and visualize observations. The ability to create images is increasingly more straightforward and more accessible to communicate due to technology. Information gathering, filtering, and processing are altering how we conceive of images as a means of communicating an idea, mood, or associative relations between multiple entities. Images can impart new interpretations to 3D form by manipulating image data and structures.
This exercise researched the relationship between what is overproduced - the image - and what is tangible. Original base file images get manipulated by command tools in Photoshop. They are superimposed on one another with changing degrees of transparency, allowing the parts of the original base files to reconfigure themselves into new content. This allowed me to explore how the potential of digital media can reveal new ways of making.
A height field map, also known as a height map or heightfield, is a 2D or 3D array of values that represents the height or elevation at different points in a terrain or surface. Each value in the array corresponds to a particular x-y coordinate and indicates the height at that point. Height field maps are commonly used in computer graphics and simulation to create realistic terrain surfaces, such as mountains, valleys, and hills. Through previous image making techniques I could speculate on new ways of generating form, using images as generative tools.
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