This document discusses disrupting 3D models through digital images and interfaces. It explores distributing color, shape, and texture properties of 2D and 3D images according to different rules through software plugins, and discusses generating and disrupting 3D objects randomly. It proposes that these disrupted models could be 3D printed and analyzed as visual elements and plastic signs rather than figurative representations. The document also references specific examples like film sequences and title sequences to illustrate motion structures and discusses presenting the disrupted models through a website.

1. Disrupting 3D Models
Everardo Reyes
Université Paris 13
CAC.3 | Nov. 27, 2012. Paris

2. Beyond figures
...toward the study of plastic properties in digital images

3. Why?
to contribute to visual literacy
to try to understand, culturally, visual features in digital media
to foster aesthetic provocations

4. 2D & 3D
spatial distribution

5. Pixelation filter Find edges filter
mainly based on colors mainly based on shapes

6. Color scheme 2D distribution
made with Rainbow 1.5 (Firefox addon)

7. List ot color library 2D distribution
made with Rainbow 1.5 (Firefox addon)

8. Color space visualization 3D distribution
made with Color Inspector 3D (ImageJ plugin)

9. Distributing according to different rules

10. Hyper-Paint
made with Processing (Irene Gersenowies, 2008)

11. Exploding 2D Image in 3D Space,
made with Processing (E. Reyes, 2012)

12. Generating Cubes Randomly,
made with MEL in Autodesk Maya (E. Reyes, 2012)

13. Generating Spheres Fractally,
made with PyMEL in Autodesk Maya (E. Reyes, 2012)

14. Disrupting 3D Models,
made with Processing (E. Reyes, 2012)

15. Exploration through interface: parametrizing
Invitation to 3D print a disrupted model?

16. the POV of visual semiotics

17. Plastic Signs != Figurative Signs
They are visual elements
We approach them by means of no figurative association, or
representation to the physical world
They complete iconic and iconographic signs

18. The expression plane of plastic signs
Coloremes Figuremes Texturemes
hue position textural element
brigthness dimension textural repetition
saturation direction

19. These are plastic categories which can be measured, mixed,
remixed, and analyzed
When assembled, they create plastic formants... we move toward
other meanings, a plastic language

20. Greimas said: there is homologation between plastic categories and
meaning, at the form level
Abstract as they are, they may foster meaning effects:
roundness/harshness, flat/jagged, union/dispersion, small/tall, stretched/
squashed.
But is it possible to say that these meaning effects are homological? Is there
a universal or an ideal shape of harshness? Is it useful to categorize plastic
formants? What happens if there is no figurative background as reference?

21. Motion Structures:
disrupting + indexical

22. Inception (Nolan, 2010) Paris fold-over sequence

23. Paris fold-over sequence. Seq. 10
A Kinetic sculpture

25. Game of Thrones Title Sequence

26. Average brightness of frames

27. STL object
optimized for our software

28. from Web to other media?

29. CAC.3 website
made with Tilt (Firefox addon)

30. Gracias
Everardo Reyes
Université Paris 13