Virtual Environments ENVS10008

Student: WEILIN YAN (Jason) Number: 596561

Pattern----- DahliaThis pattern is called “Eye of Dahlia” taken by Eric Vogt. It first attracted my eyes by the flamboyant color and I thought it was a rose before. The image shows the process of blossom and the petals from the centre gradually stretch and become bigger to outside. The track of the petals spreading out seems like a spiral. Hence, for the movement drawing I chose spi-raling curve as the track.

Design Processing font aVi Virtua; Environments hic 10 pt

week 1 JOURNAL

Movement

Symmetry

Balance

Reading Answer

According to Kandinsky, analytical approach can be divided into three stages.

For the first stage, Kandinsky (1987, 114) listed the examples of drawings by Lothar and Hans. From my perspective, this first stage means that we should focus on simple geometry and then study the forms of the drawing. This makes us to exemplify each elements separately and then we can think about the overall shape. For my analytical drawing of my pattern Dahlia (symmetry), I came up with an equilateral from the picture and through my recipe to develop a final drawing with the shape of a blossomy flower, which shares similarity with my pattern image.

The second stage was called “development of the structural network” (Prague, cited in Kandinsky 1987). I think this stage is more like a discovery of the structure and we should pay attention to the structural network as a whole. Therefore, “[t]his phase is the heart of the analytical approach (Kandinsky 1987). In my drawing, I kept trying to maintain clarity through the structure of the Dahlia. The image shows the process of blossom and the petals become bigger from the centre to the out-side. So I want to show this process into my analytical drawings.

The last stage is more radical and more abstract (Kandunsky 1987). From my point of view. this stage is an extending of the second stage. Furthermore, this stage also manages to translate the image into abstract meanings. I went through all the three stages and kept refining the forms and structures of my pattern. Then I came up with the main idea of blooming or blos-som as the agenda for all my drawings.

Week 1Pipe& Rail sweep

Week 2Custom Interface

Rhino Tutorialweek 2 journal

Philp Poall Patterns>>>> self-organised >>>> computation performed by the in-

Week 2 Reading

Oscillation Inhibitor Branching

Spots

Agrregation

Cited from Paul’s

Stripe

Philp’s article makes me think further for my papttern and gives me more thoughts about the emerging form models, like how to change the analytical drawing from 2D to 3D. In addition, I try to make my recipe sim-ple and also make the abstract “blossom”

Emerging Form 1

For this model, I just traced each pattern (petals) in my chosing picture. Then I scaled them in 3D(only the height in fact) with the equidifferent.And I chose one centimetre as the common difference. This is similar with my move-ment analytical drawing and the final form also appeares to be an irregular spiral. Then I used Rhino and trace the picture in two different ways. I actually find that the cylinder one is more interesting since it’s simple and aesthetic.

Recipe

Emerging Form 2

For this second form, at first I used truncated cones and piled them up two by two inversely. Then I realised that this is very difficult to have light effect and create shadows. So I only chose one to creat the form. Then I also changed the truncated cones into irregular cones by twisted a rectangualr (see the image below). Later I arranged them into different shapes. And find an interesting image above. The light through the small hole and creates linearly elipses spiraling in the shadow.

PRECEDENT STUDY

Double Spiral ------By Paul Nylander

Riemann sphere (loxodrome)

Paul create a doubke spiralis by applying a light projection from the top of a Riemann sphere(loxodrome) onto a plane. This projection is called a stereographic projection.

This reminds me of the idea I used before about the spiraling. Actually in this design, the shadows it creates is also a sympol of spiraling. So I think for my model form I can use this idea and make the light create a spiral effect or shadow on the ground. By achieving this, I probably need to ex-amine the basic form of model and ask myself is it necessary for the model to be a spiral or not.