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Monday, October 29, 2012

Palladio Attempt #2



As the title suggests, this was the second plexiglass demo.
We set this up using two easels to hoist up the plexiglass, and had two lights on either side of the painter. Then we filmed for ten minutes.
Personally, I love this idea. I think that watching the painting being made while the music is playing is an excellent idea. However, we can't just put a painter (or me, as I've done it both times) in front of the glass with no concept or idea of what to put on the plexiglass.
The actual execution of this needs to be planned better. A few minor things as well need to be sorted out, such as the shakiness of the glass when painting.
I also didn't like the lights switching too much. I felt it was a little distracting, as though something had changed but I couldn't quite tell what it was or why we did it.

As for next steps, I think we should continue testing for a while, and also come up with a solid concept/plan, combining all of the ideas everyone has.

Palladio Attempt #1



For one of our Palladio tests we tried painting on plexiglass, brought it into iMovie, paired it with Palladio and sped it up. This was the outcome!
We thought this looked pretty good, but we tried it again with different coloured paints.
F[a_, L_, r_, s_, t_] := Table[ {-(r + s*Cos[t])^n*Sin[n*a], (r + s*Cos[t])^n*Cos[n*a]}, {n, 0, L}] V := {{1.45631, 556, .995, .003}, {2.94712, 502, .998, .001}, {4.50891, 485, .9955, .0025}, {4.9367, 630, .997, .002}} Table[ ListAnimate[ Table[ Graphics[ Polygon[ F[Part[Part[V, G], 1], Part[Part[V, G], 2], Part[Part[V, G], 3], Part[Part[V, G], 4], t]], PlotRange -> 1, ImageSize -> 250], {t, 0, 2 Pi, 2 Pi/40}]], {G,1,4,1}