COSTUMER Radugadesign
WORK Interactive table that visualised pre rendered alembic objects and 4k textures
SOFT TouchDesigner, Arduino
ABOUT PROJECT
During 2018 and 2019 together with our colleagues from holding Airports of Regions, architectural bureau Nowadays, Maсrofabrica company and the head of the project Arseniy Krukov we have been preparing “Gagarin” project. The airport executed in space style and named after Yuri Gagarin was inagurated on the 18th of August 2019, the Air Force Day in Russia.
Radugadesign studio was responsible for the multimedia content of the “Gagarin” art exposition. We tried to transform the airport into spaceport to wake up visitors’ imagination. Our exposition suggests passengers of the airport to accomplish not only travel, but time travel. Using the language of new media the new Saratov airport tells about people’s perception of the space before and after the first flight and how the first flight affected culture: literature, painting, cinema. Each of the airport’s parts was filled with one thematic section of the exposition.
Radugadesign studio was responsible for the multimedia content of the “Gagarin” art exposition. We tried to transform the airport into spaceport to wake up visitors’ imagination. Our exposition suggests passengers of the airport to accomplish not only travel, but time travel. Using the language of new media the new Saratov airport tells about people’s perception of the space before and after the first flight and how the first flight affected culture: literature, painting, cinema. Each of the airport’s parts was filled with one thematic section of the exposition.
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The first exhibit of multimedia table is the projects of 1920s by Kazimir Malevich, El Lissittzky, George Krutikov on the development of space. Their works are presented in new 3D format. Using trackball objects on the screen can be rotated and explored.
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MY GOALS
☀ INFINITY MOUSE
This was my first experience with phyton external modules. The module provided infinite cursor movement on the XY axes in conjunction with the TouchDesigner node logic
☀ OPTIMISATION
Optimizing the playback of alembic geo models and video textures in 4k. The works of artists were presented in the form of 3d models in alembic format. High resolution video textures were used for high-quality rendering. The used version of TouchDesigner has no solution for compressing textures into VRAM. To get around this problem, a system for loading and unloading textures was created
☀ ARDUINO
Communication module between the installation and the buttons. Scenes were selected from an external keyboard based on the Arduino
