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One project that I found to be very interesting was Tentacle Tower by Yoichiro Kawaguchi, created in 2005. It’s abstract and interactive, allowing viewers to walk around it. I find myself lost in the design while looking at it, and find the complex shapes and patterns to be fascinating. The medium is a Lenticular 30 picture light box, and was the first time that such a huge-scale Lenticular image has been used to cover four surfaces. While I’m not completely sure about the algorithm, the website says that it is a high-res image composed of 15 serial flames. Kawaguchi’s artistic sensibilities has to be very specific in order to convey such a complex work of art. A lot of thought had to go into all the different shapes and patterns and how they would interact with each other, and the effort and time that it took to make is obvious.
See and learn about the work here.