{"id":1057,"date":"2022-09-29T13:03:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T17:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2022-10-04T03:55:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T07:55:31","slug":"leaf-as-map-leaf-skeletons-typology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/ericrohmer\/09\/29\/leaf-as-map-leaf-skeletons-typology\/","title":{"rendered":"LEAF AS MAP – LEAF SKELETONS TYPOLOGY"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This project is a typology of the extraction of leaf skeletons.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 As someone who has always been fascinated by the systematic and complex nature of maps\uff0c I somehow found that the skeleton of leaves speaks a similar language to maps. They are all systematic, well-structured, and direct a flow of nature.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 In the past few weeks, I\u2019ve collected 70+ leaves from North Oakland, Shadyside, and Squirrel Hill areas as a flaneur to start my project. After that, I put leaves on a LED light board and documented them with a camera to catch more details of them. Then I use photoshop, and imageJ to read the binary information in the image to extract leaves skeletons. I also collected a lot of city maps: sometimes the city maps fit so well into the leaf’s skeleton, and sometimes the city maps show some similarity with the leaf’s structure.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Throughout the process of extracting the skeleton of leaves, the connection between the human-made structured map and the nature-made leaf skeletons is gradually shown. Compared to conventional maps, Leaf skeletons are more organic and invite people to think: where are these branches leading? Does every piece of leaf serve as a mini portrait of the great place where people lived in?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0In general, I\u2019m very fascinated by the details that a leaves skeleton has given me and I enjoyed the process of collecting leaves and observing them, which is like a practice of meditation. Sometimes while extracting binary information and skeletonizing the images, some details will surprisingly come out and create a pattern that I cannot read with human eyes. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 I also learned how to simplify an art idea and do it well. Extracting leaf skeletons is not as easy as I thought: It indeed needs very careful documentation and processing.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 One thing that needs to be put more effort into is the extraction process. I did not make a clean \u201cskeletonized\u201d diagram because the textures and patterns of different leaves are very hard to control, so there were some problems that occurred when I tried to use the \u201cmake binary\u201d command: some detailed information was lost and thus lost consistency of the leaves. Due to this reason, even though I’ve collected 70+ leaves, it turns out that only 20+ leaves are successfully extracted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  This project is a typology of the extraction of leaf skeletons. \u00a0 \u00a0 As someone who has always been fascinated by the systematic and complex nature of maps\uff0c I somehow found that the skeleton of leaves speaks a similar language to maps. They are all systematic, well-structured, and direct a flow of nature.\u00a0   … Continue reading “LEAF AS MAP – LEAF SKELETONS TYPOLOGY”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1352,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-461\/f2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}