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Artificial Life Metropolis CELL
Yoichiro Kawaguchi
Original: Artificial Life Metropolis CELL | 4429 * 3024px | 42.6 MB
Original: Artificial Life Metropolis CELL | 4429 * 3024px | 42.6 MB
Original: Artificial Life Metropolis CELL | 4429 * 3024px | 42.6 MB
Original: Artificial Life Metropolis CELL | 4429 * 3024px | 42.6 MB
Original: Artificial Life Metropolis CELL | 4429 * 3024px | 42.6 MB
In the piece 'Artificial Life Metropolis CELL' I would like to present three-dimensional plastic art as represented by a computer image using the basic principle of a cellular model as seen from an artistic point of view. The self-organization of a three-dimensional space, which is composed of a mass of 'voxel', can generate complex evolving space. This idea is inspired by the theory of self-organizing automaton in two-dimensional space. A model based on a three-dimensional cell model is capable of inducing unpredictable, delicate and emergent vibration using one simple rule.
We use grid coordinates to simulate the life and death of a cell in three-dimensional space. We also use the term of 'voxel' as an elemental cube in the grid coordinates. A group of 'voxel' make up a three-dimensional object, just as millions of cells make up a natural life form. The success of the self-organizing system of the voxel is correlative to the animation of plastic art, which is the object of experimentation within the context of voxel space.
Technical Background
HW: SGI Iris
SW: Improved 3-D Cell Algorithm by Yoichiro Kawaguchi
We use grid coordinates to simulate the life and death of a cell in three-dimensional space. We also use the term of 'voxel' as an elemental cube in the grid coordinates. A group of 'voxel' make up a three-dimensional object, just as millions of cells make up a natural life form. The success of the self-organizing system of the voxel is correlative to the animation of plastic art, which is the object of experimentation within the context of voxel space.
Technical Background
HW: SGI Iris
SW: Improved 3-D Cell Algorithm by Yoichiro Kawaguchi
Yoichiro Kawaguchi (J), born 1952. Master of Fine Arts from Tokyo University of Education in 1978. Currently he is Associate Professor of Computer Graphics Art at Art & Science Lab, Department of Art, Nippon Electronics College, Tokyo. 1975 first Computer images, since 1986 involved in research work for High Definition TV (HDTV). Numerous awards, e.g. Eurographics 84; Grand Prix PARIGRAPH 87; first Prize Imagina 91, first Prize - Art Eurographics 92.