Truckin' along in the London Marathon.
Truckin' along in the London Marathon.
Cincinnnati Portfolio presents animations and images of artwork I planned and/or finished on the computer at the University of Cincinnati, modeled in Autodesk 3D Studio®, 3D Studio MAX® and Truespace®, rendered in jpg format, and animated on a Darim® mpeg demo animation encoder plug-in.
Select "repeat" as the default play option in your media player when viewing the animations.
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 "Wave, |
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 "Adams Landing, |
 "Wave |
"Adams Landing" is a rendering of the 3D Studio model of "Wave" using my "Modular Set", a group of 80 pieces produced between 1970 and 1974, reconfigured at each installation in response to the form of the exhibition site. This was the first time I planned an installation first on the computer, for its exhibition at The Adam's Landing Art Center, Cincinnati in 1994-95.
 "Geocolumn at Murray State University Gallery, 1978" |
 "Geocolumn, the 3D Studio model" |
 "Geo Venus in DAAP, Active Worlds" |
"Geocolumn at Art Jones' |
"Geocolumn" shows three views of a reconstruction of my "Seven Equal Unit Length Geometric Solids" sculpture, produced originally in 1978. Renamed "Geo Venus" it is now in the collection of Radford University. The 166k animation rotates the sculpture at La Grande-Motte, France.
 "The 3D Studio model" |
"Demon Seed at the |
 "In DAAP, Active Worlds" |
 "Rotating Cube"
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Above are three images of the sculpture initially called "Rotating Cube" fabricated in plywood in 1986, renamed "Demon Seed" by a visitor to the Tangemann Gallery exhibition in 1987. It is now in the collection of Radford University. A four cube variation is animated at the Grande Motte, and with three more complex versions, incorporating six, eight, and ten cubes in their arrangement is shown as initially modeled in 3D Studio. The original sculpture was not made on the computer until last year. "Son of Demon Seed" the 10 cube version of "Rotating Cube," is animated here.
 "Emerging Cube" |
 "4th level atrium bridge" |
 "Moire Screen detail" |
 "Emerging Cube |
 "Moire Screen |
 "Moire Screen detail"
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 "C. G. & E., Headquarters Atrium |
 "C. G. & E., Headquarters Atrium |
"Moire Screen" and "Emerging Cube" are site specific sculptures, commissioned by The Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company for the renovation of their Cincinnati headquarters building in 1988 and 1989, installed on adjacent walls of the central atrium. They were modeled as installed in 3D Studio MAX in 2005, to be converted for display In DAAP, Active Worlds, as part of Intersculpt 2005.
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 "Twisted Crystal |
 "Twisted Crystal in DAAP, |
"Twisted Cube" fabricated in 1990-92, was the subject of my first attempt to reconstruct a complex already fabricated sculpture on the computer, simplifying the structure of the computer model as much as possible. "Twisted Cube II" was fabricated in 1993. "Twisted Crystal" was an adaptation made in 3D Studio and my first model exported into Renderware® format for offline installation in Alphaworld, Active Worlds 1n 1996. The animation rotates the model at La Grande-Motte.
 "Pool and Screen"
"Screen and Window" |
 "Night Screen"
"Night Interior" |
 "Moire Disc in Nimes" |
 "Moire Disc in Alphaworld" |
The first four images are views of computer based variations of my sculptures, placed in my first virtual environment, modeled for the sake of experimenting with lighting and animation effects in 3D Studio simulating day and night. The first animation is a walk and fly through of the night-time version. The second animation and fifth image presents the animated center element in the cicular screen as a seperate freestanding sculpture set in Nimes, France. The sixth image shows "Moire Disc," installed since 1997 near ground zero in Alphaworld, the first multi-user virtual word on the Internet.
 "Triangles 1"
"Triangles 2" |
 "Triangles 3"
"Diamonds" |
Four additional models for sculpture based on the square and triangular elements in "Screen" are animated together here. These, together with the rest of the sculpture models included in the 3D Studio virtual environment above, became the subjects of my first installations using ActiveWorlds' Internet based virtual worlds. These installations initially took place off line at "Piazza", my building site in Alphaworld, and subsequently on line in DAAP, my own world, which I have used for teaching, experiment and exhibition since 1996.
 "Circular Screen in Toronto" |
 "Through Circular Screen in DAAP" |
 "Circular Screen over New York" |
"Circular Screen" is a model made in 3D Studio 3 of a moire screen fabricated in glass, gold and silver, set against images of Toronto and New York, and installed over ground zero in DAAP. The animation rotates the model in a Toronto interior space.
 "Twister" |
 "Vine Street Bridge" |
 "Coronet" |
Three views of proposals for sculptural features to be associated with the identity and location of Vine street bridge over the renovated Fort Washington Way in Cincinnati. These included waveform rail and screen systems for the bridge, fountain and tornado forms, and a vine screen, for the principal features. "Coronet" was designed as an alternate treatment of the "gateway" feature for Vine Street bridge. The animation moves from an overview into a walk-through of the proposed site.
 "Dance" |
 "Macarina in DAAP" |
 "In 3D Studio MAX" |
"Dance" was originally fabricated in laquered maple in 1984-5, and exhibited at The Tangemann Gallery, University of Cincinnati. It was recreated as "Macarina" in TrueSpace, as a demonstration project for my first Media Fundamentals class for installation in DAAP, our interactive on line virtual reality environment in Active Worlds, and again in 3D Studio MAX for this page.
 "Twister in 3D Studio 4" |
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 "Twister in DAAP" |
The setting for the model of "Twister", the Aronoff Center Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Gallery, was constructed in 3DStudio4 and MAX, then the sculpture itself was modeled inside. I installed the sculpture on site in October '97. The final model was installed in DAAP in 2006.
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"Twister, Freestanding" was modeled in 3DStudio MAX. I installed this sculpture in "Pier Walk '98" on the Navy Pier in Chicago in May. The sculpture was on exhibition through October 18th., 1998.
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"Riverfront" is a concept for an 800' long sculpture submitted for the Cincinnati Metro Riverfront Transit Center Art Project in November 2000.
 "3D Studio MAX Model" |
 "On the Taurus® mill" |
 "Completed model" |
"Left-Handed Venus" was generated as a demonstration project for my Computer Sculpture class in the Winter of 2001. The model was appropriated from a freeware download site on the Internet, and the geometry reversed in 3d Studio MAX. Versions were made to be installed on line in DAAP, extruded as a six inch high model in ABS plastic using a Stratasys 2000, and machined four feet high in styrofoam on a Taurus six-axis milling machine.
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 "Orbs"
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 "Twisters"
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 "Pulse"
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Three sculptures designed to test the real-time textured animation of objects in DAAP, ActiveWorlds, installed as my contribution to the virtual exhibition component of Intersculpt 2001, the third International Biennial of Digital Sculpture. The lower three images and animations were rendered from the initial models in 3D Studio MAX.
 "Hoops in 3D Studio MAX" |
 "Hoops in DAAP" |
 "Six Framed Cubes, Extended" |
"Four Bound Cubes, Rotating" |
"Four Bound Cubes, Extended" |
"Hoops", designed in 2002, continues to test the real-time textured animation of objects in DAAP, ActiveWorlds, as does "Four Bound Cubes, Rotating" installed with the extended cube series for the on line exhibition Intersculpt 2003.
I hope to continue exploring my interest in geometric form, and modeling in virtual space. Working with animated objects, and producing actual models directly from virtual designs, are my interests in the immediate future.
My recent projects are also presented in Piazza, a page of images from my building site in Alphaworld, planned as a prototype for the location of an internet sculpture exhibition; DAAP '96, a record of my first sculpture installations in our ActiveWorlds zone; and Twister, a record of the installation at the Aronoff Center for the Arts in Cincinnati.
If you have the Activeworlds viewer installed, and listed as a helper application for your browser, teleport here to Piazza. Teleport here to DAAP., my first world of virtual sculpture. You may also enter DAAP by teleporting from anywhere in ActiveWorlds via the menu option to coordinates "DAAP".
