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D'Invenzione #04
Ronaldo Kiel
Original: D'Invenzione #04 | 4429 * 3024px | 42.6 MB
I like to call 'D'lnvenzione' a 'soft-media' piece - a computer-generated art idea to be outputted in any suitable medium - presented here in print and on video.
'D'lnvenzione' stages the paradox of an endless man-made construction employing an audio/visual loop. The audio was generated by using the Shepard-tone scale (named for psychologist Roger Shepard), and the images were based on Giovanni Battista Piranesi's (1720-1778) 'Le Carceri' prints. All renderings were created using synthetic lights and lenses to shoot the 3D model mapped with textures (an imaginary architectural structure).
The graphic output: A series of 10 prints were rendered in Electric Image Animation System as 32 bit (2048 x 1366 pixels) images and saved as 10" x 6.67" CMYK files at 300 pixels per inch resolution in Adobe Photoshop. All files were printed as 13.5" x 20" on a Iris Ink Jet printer between March and November 1993.
The video output: the preliminary recordings were performed on the Panasonic AG-7750 SVHS deck with the AG-F700 time code reader generator card, using the True Vision NuVista + frame buffer/encoder and the DQ-Animaq DiaQuest frame controller. The 90-second animation loop was rendered over a period of 20 days on a Macintosh IIci computer (with 8 MB RAM) in a 640 x 480 frame format at NTSC 30 frames/second rate.
Technical Background
HW: Macintosh llci
SW: EIAS and Adobe Photoshop
'D'lnvenzione' stages the paradox of an endless man-made construction employing an audio/visual loop. The audio was generated by using the Shepard-tone scale (named for psychologist Roger Shepard), and the images were based on Giovanni Battista Piranesi's (1720-1778) 'Le Carceri' prints. All renderings were created using synthetic lights and lenses to shoot the 3D model mapped with textures (an imaginary architectural structure).
The graphic output: A series of 10 prints were rendered in Electric Image Animation System as 32 bit (2048 x 1366 pixels) images and saved as 10" x 6.67" CMYK files at 300 pixels per inch resolution in Adobe Photoshop. All files were printed as 13.5" x 20" on a Iris Ink Jet printer between March and November 1993.
The video output: the preliminary recordings were performed on the Panasonic AG-7750 SVHS deck with the AG-F700 time code reader generator card, using the True Vision NuVista + frame buffer/encoder and the DQ-Animaq DiaQuest frame controller. The 90-second animation loop was rendered over a period of 20 days on a Macintosh IIci computer (with 8 MB RAM) in a 640 x 480 frame format at NTSC 30 frames/second rate.
Technical Background
HW: Macintosh llci
SW: EIAS and Adobe Photoshop
Ronaldo Kiel (BR), born 1958, is a Lecturer at the Art Department at Brooklyn College, New York, freelance Advertising Designer and Multimedia Developer in New York. 1958 B.F.A. at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil; 1991 M.F.A. at Brooklyn College, New York.