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| Gail
Wight is an Assistant Professor of Intermedia and Electronic Arts at Mills
College. For her project in high performance computing, Wight is building
models of numerous forms of bacteria that will swim about, their bodies
becoming canvases on which to project ideas about evolution. To do this,
she is creating amoeboid forms using the 3D animation program, Maya™,
and projecting video imagery of these forms. |
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Screen
shot of preliminary animation design. Please click on thumbnail for larger
view.
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will result in an approximately 3 minute video, to be projected on the
dome at the LodeStar Planetarium.
The form of the video will be non-narrative, but the soundtrack will contain
text by various authors on the topic of
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evolution.
The content will therefore be driven by the play between text and projected
image. Like all of her work, this piece will have a serious intent, but
is bound to be on the humorous side.
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Please
click on thumbnails of images for larger view. |
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images above are of a preliminary "domemaster" Wight tested on
the dome at LodeStar to see how her models of bacteria looked projected
onto a large, hemispheric dome. The image on the left is of the entire dome
image as it looks before it is spliced and projected by 5 different digital
video projectors onto the dome. The image on the right is a closeup of the
upper left quadrant of the domemaster. As color and space look different
on the dome than they do in Maya™, tests like these are crucial in
the production of dome projects. |
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