Cubism

The Globe and Mail has an article about a technique that was developped at the University of Bath, U.K. to render images in a Cubist manner. "By using photos taken from different points of view, the program picks out and renders as blocks the key parts of the image. It then shuffles these blocks and randomly distorts them. And then, just like that, another cubist “masterpiece” is complete and ready for digital printing." the Globe writes. Well, well. Cubist painters worldwide should fear for their jobs apparently.

Collomosse's page is actually quite interesting. Cubist Style NPR from Photographs and Video, but cubism his work is not. It's interesting that one would choose cubism, one of the first attempts to depersonsonalize art, with an emphasis on "knowing" the subjectmatter, rather than "seeing" it. The cut-and-paste technique he uses is reminiscent of synthetic cubism, whereas the multiple perspectives are more prevalent in analytic cubism that (until about 1913) preceded it. Analytic cubism took primitive shapes, synthetic cubism took fragment of objects and assembled them into shapes. There are many similarities, but this kind of machine cubism is very different; nobody except perhaps the most ignorant viewer could possible be fooled by it. Pigeons perhaps?

Collomosse kind enough to point to Cubism for Computer Graphics Glasner has some interesting ideas about unusual cameras that I could use immediately.

Posted by mduvekot at August 25, 2004 08:15 PM