Embodied Landscapes
Tobias Klein

Intermediate - Autumn 2009

Open Room 5 [36.211]
Mondays 2-5pm

 

Embodied Landscapes encompasses a fusion of voxel-based inside-out medical approaches in virtual environments with a more classical architectural polygonal point/vertex based design approach.

We will study Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) as a vital tool in diagnosis, research and visualization in medicine. This non-invasive investigation of the body yields a digital reproduction by measuring the relative densities of the body. Rather than the 2-D pixel representing pictorial space, the ‘voxel’ is used to visualize and inform space in three dimensions adding properties allowing the fusion of densities with space.

The projected voxel-body is generated through fields of density and viscosity that imply the merging of ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ space disregarding boundaries and hence allowing for a surgeon or architect to interface between actual/virtual and densities of matter/space.

This course seeks to cross medical voxel based software with representational mesh based 3d packages. In particular we will use Osirix and 3dmax/Rhino to manipulate voxel body data and create/render hybrid embodied landscape models. The resulting landscapes will be composed of a number of spatial frequencies at differing orientations where ‘space’ is generated through interlocking density fields.

 

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    • Session 1: Monday 5th Oct:

    • -Introduction to voxel-based medical software

    • -Introduction to Rhino/Max/Modo

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    • Session 2: Monday 12th Oct:

    • -Transfer logic between voxel-based software and mesh-based platforms

    • -Ideation for the term project

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    • Session 3: Monday 19th Oct:

    • -3D - scanning session - TBC -

    • -Mesh optimisation techniques / voxel to mesh

    • -Reverse 2d pixel - 3d voxel / mesh to voxel

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    • Session 4: Monday 26th Oct:

    • -Mutation / hybridisation / cross platform routines

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    • Session 5: Monday 9th Nov:

    • -Working session - focus mesh/polygon modelling

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    • Session 6: Monday 16th Nov:

    • -Working session - focus rendering/reverse mesh

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    • Session 7: Monday 23rd Nov:

    • -Working session - focus combining all the landscapes together

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    • Session 8: Monday 30th Nov:

    • -Course Submission

  • Enrolled Students

  • Michael Ahlers

  • Maria-Panagiota Brewster

  • JooHyun Cho

  • Eleanor Dodman

  • Andrea Gillow Kloster

  • Ilina Kroushovski

  • Yoo Jin Lee

  • Georges Massoud

  • James McBennet

  • John Ng

  • Nora Nilsen

  • Quiddale O'Sullivan

  • Jessica Pappalardo

  • William Stanley

  • Antoine Vaxelaire

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  • *Please note, any students unable to be enrolled in a MS Autumn 2009 course will be prioritised for enrolment for the Spring 2010 term.

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