Category: Art Diary

Aims/subject of the proposal What is the nature of the work you are proposing? The work will be a set of nine 360 degree photographed objects, each held in glass…

Using Gelatin for Moulds and Prosthetics This is an interesting method for creating moulds and prosthetics using Gelatin. The only downside here is that it comes out quite brown and…

As much as looking into Ptolomy’s Map was interesting… I placed the map onto a plane and changed parts of it to correspond to the terrain.  Whilst the map looked…

In an effort to identify anomalies and get a clearer picture of the area covered by Ptolemy’s map I’ve tried to outline the bounds of the known map at the…

Topographic Map of the World released by NASA and Japan This map shows the topography of the world… this may be useful when mapping the 2D Ptolomy map on a…

Some of this, particularly at the start is perfect for what I’m going through though I’d like to keep to the single map and have the other elements be tightly…

This is more the style I’d be after with my map animation. Although I’m obviously not intending of launching into a video sequence.

The part I like here is the title sequence, it shows a very darkened background, this might be a way of highlighting that we don’t really know what’s past certain…

The cloud effects when flying over these 2D maps give an interesting effect, I think I should include such elements when I do my map. The zoom in feature at…

Tricky map folding into sphere.