In the early days of film, there was a time when French 3D Cinema was called “Relief Cinema”. The word, Relief, however brings the idea of something physical to mind when we hear it, which is why the name was later tweaked to include the more intangible term, 3D. Playing on this fact, French Artist [Julien Maire] has designed and built an over-sized projector for his installation titled “Relief“, that creates an animation by passing light through a series of individual 3D vignettes.
[Julien’s] intricately built projection reel in itself is an impressive mechanical feat, arguably out-staging the image it exists to produce on the wall of the gallery space. The eighty-five individual frames that create the short clip of a man digging a hole in the ground, consist of small figurines made with a stereo lithography printer. The semi-transparent nature of the resin used by the SLA printer gives the shadow cast by the projector a series of foggy-values that create a three dimensional appearance instead of merely casting a silhouette of the shape. This installation blends new and old technologies together to produce something we’re familiar with, but leaves us admiring an object that we’ve never seen before.
[Julien’s] “Relief” is currently being exhibited at iMAL (interactive Media Art Laboratory in Brussels) which will run throughout the month of October. If you happen to find yourself on a long stay in Europe before the Hardware Workshop in Munich, you could make a pitstop and check it out!
I think he wants to tell us something!
http://www.imal.org/sites/default/files/slideshows/14/09/reliefmaire05.jpg
I did Nazi that coming. :O
Interestingly enough, that particular geometric arangement has a lot of other meanings, an has been around since the dawn of time, it is unfortunate that it still hangs on to its negative conotations in western culture… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika The word swastika derives from the Sanskrit svastika “lucky or auspicious object”.. you pays your money, you takes your pick of the meanings.
At a certain number of million people burned in brick ovens a symbol gets a bad rap, okay?
Also he was joking.
lol.for sure brussel is only a stone’s throw away from munich.
I would throw a steep trajectory, to keep the stone above the earth atmosphere most of the way to Munich. Avoid pebbles, they can bounce during re-entry.
I will come too
http://i.imgur.com/PYg1GAP.png
Is “Cimema” a typo?
i would love to see some video of this thing in action. if anyone happens to visit there, could they take a video of it if possible?
We’ll shoot a video this week, it will be posted on our website & Youtube ;)
Awesome! Cant wait to see. =]