Animal to Machine

Chromatophores are often used for camouflage. This picture (courtesy of the Field Museum of Natural History) shows a winter flounder resting on a checkerboard pattern.

The chromatophores of cephalopods change size (expand and contract) as a result of activity of muscle fibers and the motor neurons that terminate at them. In crustaceans and amphibians, the chromatophores have a fixed shape. Color change comes about through the dispersal (darkening) or aggregation (lightening) of granules within the cell. This is under hormonal control.

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Interactive_Architecture ( Looking glass Wall )

Two hi resolution LCD screens with glass anamorphic lenses. These are placed in the corner of a room or building to force the viewer unknowingly into a anti social position. The experience of the viewer is that of looking into a distinct separate reality. This is at odds with their physical position as viewed buy others as they appear to be disengaged from the usual stance of a person being in a room or building surface. As the device is stereoscopic the viewer experiences ” full immersion ” something which is rarely achieved through standard display and projection methods. This results in the generative abstracts ceasing to be a patterned surface but a true spacial environment.

So in essence the project is about a dualism between synthetic and real architectures. And our social position in physical space. As far as I know the only time this stance would be otherwise be seen is in a 19th century classroom and the protagonist the ” dunce ”

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