Sculpting Film in 3-dimensions - A Technological Innovati

VIDEO DESCRIPTION:

Play, download and edit the free video Sculpting Film in 3-dimensions - A Technological Innovation in Data Visualizations.

Film Sculptures. Fusion CI Labs latest innovation. Focused on creating memorable, mesmerizing, meaningful experiences - fusing art, science & technology.
We’re designing a rich vehicle for telling diverse stories using film combined with visual effects, to give us a new, dimensional perspective on both story, and film itself.
The initial step in our process was kindled by a realization during ‘new-idea’ team sessions with Fusion's co-founders: Lauren Millar, a film-maker and Mark Stasiuk, a geophysicist/technologist who have crossed over into experiential installations.
Our best, richest, most detailed source of data about our world and our universe is the camera, and the data is the light it records. Via remote cameras, light brings us data about the deep oceans, volcanic eruptions, and our atmosphere, as well as distant planets, stars and nebulae. Light data allows conclusions about ancient waters that flowed on Mars and solar flares on our sun. Film makers use light recordings to create narratives about the world around us, providing us with an interpretation of our environment in a similar way scientists interpret sequences of measurements. So, we decided to use films as a source for a new kind of data sculpture.
What is a data sculpture? It’s an artistic depiction of data. Designed to create a deeper or different perspective on the data, fleshing it out with added meaning. For a data stream, we decided to use our best source of data: light recorded by cameras. By applying techniques derived from the technical side of film making, visual effects, Fusion CI Labs developed methods to extract from films all the various render passes needed to magnify the film color, luminosity, texture, topography, reflectivity and, of course, movement. Because all camera recordings carry an added layer of digital or film ‘noise’ (just as any scientific instrument adds some level of noise), the Fusion team developed new methods of characterizing the noise & minimizing it – that’s particularly important because our methods of displaying the light data involve greatly magnifying aspects of it, such as motion, texture and relief, which would in turn magnify the noise if left embedded.
The team also determined methods of controlling each render pass in terms of spatial & temporal variations, allowing a detailed level of art direction and completing fusion of art, science & technology. The end result is Film Sculpture, giving viewers a dimensional re-interpretation of film that feels like you could reach out and pull it out of the screen.
In Fragile Finity, the film data is applied to a spherical form, but there's no limitation in the mode of display. Watch for more film sculptures from the Fusion team soon!

And remember: There's data in the light.

Download, play and edit free videos and free audios from Sculpting Film in 3-dimensions - A Technological Innovation in Data Visualizations using RedcoolMedia.net web apps