prosthetic knowledge
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3D Printed Photographs
Instructables walkthrough from on converting black and white photographs into 3D printed images complete with relief texture:
The 3d printer in our office (an Objet Connex500) prints with a rigid, semitransparent white material that can be used to create these unique black and white photographic prints. These prints may be indecipherable when viewed from the side, but when backlit with a diffuse light, they recreate images with surprisingly high precision and even add some subtle dimensionality and texture to the scene.
By varying the thickness of a region of this semitransparent print you can control the amount of light that is able to pass through, thereby controlling the brightness (thinner regions of material will appear brighter and thicker regions darker). In this project, I’ve mapped each individual greyscale pixel value of an image to thickness, allowing me to precisely reproduce any greyscale image. The photos I’ve printed include an adorable picture my mom took of our cat Teddy (fig 4), Saturn and its moon Titan taken by the Cassini space probe (fig 5 and 6), and a huge print (19x16”) of Mt. Williamson by Ansel Adams (fig 1, 2, and 3).Read how they were put together here
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GIF-TY
Design concept for a camera that can print out a series of small prints to create a flipbook - video embedded below:
Via Yanko Design:
This unique camera allows you to print out short flipbook animations, so that you can physically keep the memories of precious moments alive in a fun way. GIF-TY’s Animations can be physically edited, and clipped on a separately designed module. Nametags can be attached to those clips just like old videotapes.
Technologically: GIF-TY is a combination of a burst-shot camera, and a ‘Zero-Ink’ Printer.
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4D Video
Online browser-based slitscan experiment distorts your webcam input:
This experiment allows you to explore 4-dimensional space using your webcam … try slowly waving your arm before undertaking more radical experimentation in the 4th dimension.
Try it out here
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XY Plotter by Stephen Cartwright
Long exposure photography of a moving LED light on a plotter.
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Polaroid Cacher
Student project from Adrià Navarro and DI Shin turns an old Polaroid camera into desktop printer, designed to capture special moments in your online life - video embedded below:
Polaroid Cacher from Adrià Navarro on Vimeo.
The Polaroid Cacher is a camera that allows you to take traditional instant pictures of your digital experiences. It’s an ambient device, part physical and part digital, meant to address the fleeting nature of online interactions.
We believe that our daily online activity –conversations, discoveries, games– is as meaningful as our activity in the physical world and, as such, should be preserved the same way we try to capture every important moment in our life. Especially because most of this experiences will be soon forgotten, lost under layers of information, databases and outdated services.
Given the powerful association of instant photography with memories, people and nostalgia –rather than with photographic quality– we designed our camera as a fictional Polaroid product. One that captures digital media in a traditional analog format, as means to create tangible, durable mementos of our digital life.
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Glitch Brand
Another fashion brand to utilize glitch aesthetics for it’s clothing line:
A “glitch” is an unexpected result of a malfunction or digital error.
Glitch art is the visual manifestation of such an error…an error not be discarded or deleted but given a new purpose as a form of artistic expression.
Our in house design team utilizes exclusive, one of a kind, “glitch photographic“ images to open a portal to a new fine art fashion movement.
To us, a glitch offers a perfectly amazing peice of art to be seen…and worn in the digital age!
Get in the glitch…
Glitch Brand.
Nothing is available at it’s store yet, but you can out more at their site here and their Tumblr blog here
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The world is an abstract comic
Abstract Comics (a blog which explores the idea of using the comic panel technique with abstract visuals) has a small collection of images from Google Earth which fits into it’s ideas.
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The Pinhole CCTV Camera Template
A papercraft CCTV camera to make and install for yourself, and create pinhole photographs:
In tweleve simple stages, you can turn this five page template into a functioning pinhole CCTV camera. This pinhole camera accepts photographic paper and produces 2”x2.5” prints.
Available at the Made By store here
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Aerial Photography of Poland in Winter
A collection by Marek Samojeden:
Winter in Poland is very beautiful season – just look
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HD Microscopic Zoomable Photo Of Weathered Euro Coin
An interactive photo at New Scientist lets you intimately examine the wear and scratches of an average coin - by Sumit Paul-Choudhury:
The euro has taken a bit of a battering of late - and not just in the financial markets. As you can see for yourself above, the surface of a 1-cent coin, while smooth to the naked eye, is pitted and scarred when viewed through a powerful microscope.
To create this image, artist Martin John Callanan, a fellow at University College London based in the Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art, worked with Ken Mingard, Petra Mildeova and Eric Bennett at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory in London. The team used an optical microscope to create images of the lowest-denomination coins used in Australia, Burma, Swaziland and Chile, as well as the transnational euro. They took standard coins that had been in circulation and left the microscope to make 4000 tiny exposures overnight. It then took three days of processing to stitch these images together to create each final, 400-million-pixel version …
The coin images are part of an ongoing series called The Fundamental Units in which Callanan explores “the atoms that shape the global economy”. Ultimately, the series will encompass all 166 of the world’s active currencies that use coins. The first five are on display as 1.2-by-1.2-metre prints, along with more of Callanan’s works, at the Galleria Horrach Moyà in Mallorca, Spain, until 17 January 2013.
You can explore the interactive photo over at New Scientist here
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Geometric Sandcastles
A Flickr photoset showcasing the sand castles created by box builder:
TIME WELL SPENT I always have these ideas that I want to try but somehow in the attempt to get something done by the end of the day I turn towards my old standby solutions. I need to spend 6 weeks on the beach all at once. As it is I only get a day here and there and go whole years without building anything. If I could manage that I might get somewhere new.You can see much more here
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Time Scanning by Donato Maniello
A collection featuring experimental photography scan-disruptions of trees:
Capturing a moment and expand it up to the point of creating a tear that becomes aesthetic sign.
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Camera IMAGO 1:1
The World’s largest walk-in camera:
Measuring 7x4x3 metres the camera Imago 1:1 is the largest walk in camera in the world and has been so ever since its invention in the 1970’s by the physicist Werner Krause and the artist Erhard Hößle.
As a result of the camera’s unique design it is able to take and print incomparable life-sized portraits on specially developed black and white paper. For their graphic quality, one to one reproduction and once off recording of a moment in time these pictures are a unique and lasting portrait.The video embedded below shows the camera in action (German):
You can find out more here
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MERGE by Jake Stollery
A series of works combining digital printing, paint, photography and Kinect 3D scanning to create pieces focused on our technical future:
A 5 piece narrative forecasting the future, a time of the Singularity. The next stage in human evolution - merging with technology, discarding our physical, organic form & existing purely as a digital self.
Using projection, 3D scanning (via Microsoft Kinect) , photography, acrylic paint and digital printing, the series uses sequential artworks to illustrate its narrative. Beginning with the birth of the singularity, humanity’s desire to exist with it, the capturing of our minds, bodies then culminating in the discarding of our primitive, restrictive, organic self. -
The Work of Jack Addis
Great portfolio of glitch photography works with a designer’s eye. In his own words:
The work investigates the boundaries of the digital and physical. Exploring science, technology, history and humankinds own subjective beliefs. Drawing parallels between the grotesque and forced error, human identity and post human ideals, nature and functional biology. Meshing these ideas together creating new narratives of the future.
… Always using technology to inform his painting it was during his degree he began to make use sole use of computers to create his work; which is now realized though screen like one off Perspex fronted prints, gif animation or instillation.
Much more to be found at his site here
Update: He also has a Tumblr blog here
