Tuesday, 16 December 2008

Paper model of the Picnic (eventually)

After a rather long period of time, I have finally managed to design, mould and photograph the A3 3D model of the notations that I did as the first project of this module. This post is to display the final result, therefore finally completing that project of the module. I decided to mould the model so that the peaks and troughs of the model defined the areas where the largest and least number of different notations appeared. This was often therefore mainly the areas where people in the picnic were sitting as they incorporate both the static elements(hard/soft, light/dark) and the more dynamic elements(sound/movement). The images that I took of the model were taken of both sides of the paper, allowing the model to be show with and without notations. This therefore means the meaning of the peaks and troughs of the model change depending on which side you are viewing. On the notations side the highest points of the model show the areas with the most different notations, and the lowest points show the areas of least number of notations. Therefore this swaps on the non-notational side. The images I took are shown below:









This can be difficult to read and is much more obvious in physical form, but does provide an interesting representation of the data and places it back into the 3D environment in which the original event occurred. This therefore concludes the Picnic section of this module. The only other possible part to add is that of all the Picnic group's models tied together to make a Picnic mat from all of our perspectives. This however is dependant on the others in my picnic group completing their models.

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