'transcode:
to convert (language or information) from one form of coded representation to another.'
to convert (language or information) from one form of coded representation to another.'
What happens when you close a student with one weirdo task for few weeks, take an extravagant artist's works, urban plan to Grasshopper, and let it be for a while?
Well, this project is all about that. With Urs Fischer's works as an inspiration and trigger, I prepared a script that modifies urban scheme accordingly to what image depicts.
Deformed, intriguing, distorted - these features of Fischer's works are reflected to final result of this code exercise.
The idea behind the script is pretty simple:
1. Take an image and analyze which element is the one that stands out.
1. Take an image and analyze which element is the one that stands out.
2. Take that element and use it as a trigger to scale and distort elements of urban grid.
3. Distort urban grid.
And that's it! The script moves urban grid vertices, so that generated blocks follow the trigger from the image. Results can be easily collocated with the picture that was used to run the script. Voilà!
As you can observe, not all of the elements work perfectly with the scheme - that is mainly because what we see as main attractor to an image, is not what the RGB says about that image. This was one of the main problems to this task: how to decide which attractor to image should trigger the plan. The best result, imho, is presented below - the green pepper really kind of feels into that building blocks plan.
Transcoding project was done as an individual task to MSc course of Parametric Design. This crazy vision could come true thanks to the great help of Jacek Markusiewicz - our Grasshopper master - and Borys Wesolowski, with his invaluable advice 24/7.
Presented below is full submission panel.
Presented below is full submission panel.
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