ABSTRACT
3 DIMENSIONS IN THE SLADE SCHOOL: PROJECTS, PROBLEMS,
AND POSSIBILITIES FOR LINKS WITH COMPUTING
Susan Collins, Gary Woodley and Tom Lomax
Electronic Media Department & Sculpture Department, Slade School, UCL
The two Departments of the Slade School represented in this seminar have
various contacts with industrial (mainly manufacturing) and architectural
organisations which have problems or applications relevant to its expertise
in designing and constructing interactive visual/audio/linguistic
interventions, interesting 3-dimensional objects, and frameworks for
architectural/artistic collaboration. Particularly at the design level, it
has become evident that progress in its projects of this kind, and
improvement of its ability to undertake new projects in the future, will
need significant computing support, in terms of both software and
theoretical underpinning. Examples of topics where this is particularly
important are image manipulation, video streaming, mapping, plotting,
2-dimensional profiling, template construction and geometric developments,
5-axial c.n.c profiling, 3-dimensional printing, rapid prototyping,
masking, etching, and large-scale imagery.
Members of the Departments will present short accounts of their projects
and problems related to these considerations. They hope that the
presentation will amount to more of a forum than a traditional seminar, and
that the CS audience will contribute actively with questions and comments
which may lead to transfers of useful ideas and even collaborations.
Seminars are also traditionally 2-dimensional (on screens and whiteboards).
This seminar can be expected to be non-traditional and to have plenty of
real 3-dimensional components.
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