Category: PocketPostulating

Pocket Postulating

I somehow completely missed this in the assignments until class today but it needs to go up for my own peace of mind

Captures in no particular order: Me with hands, shelf deities, accidental cone street art

Methods: Slitscan, pano, polycam

Some of this was accidental (coming across the cones and a still photo not cutting it,) but some was more intentional based on capture methods. Slitscan easily creates optical illusions (not really, maybe more like a falsified reality or AR.) I knew the pano would be silly because the shelf is way too high up for me to hold my hands still, but also too large for a straight photo that explains the scope of the collection.


Pocket Postulating

Three different captures with my phone: 3D scanning of Nittany Lion using “Reality Composer”, time-lapse documentation of a design meeting, and a panoramic shot of the CFA 1st floor.

 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1S4NhZlCdrzQiO-TE5a7NmOMKjlGyWXks?usp=sharing

Pocket Postulating: Lightpainting, Panorama, Slowmo

Lightpainting: Usually we use lightpainting to capture the path of light. Long exposure creates mesmerizing light trails, making it great for artistic representations of movement. When the object is still, lightpainting allows more details to be captured. When the object is moving, lightpainting will record the trace. The following are lightpainting pictures for 1 second exposure and 3 second exposure. I move my head while the exposure time.

Panorama: This technique usually is for capturing the full breadth of a scene or subject, like wide landscapes, cityscapes, or long horizontal objects. Since the panorama photo is a collage of series continuous captures of an object from different points or angles, we can use panorama technique to create photos with different perspective of a same object. The following are panorama pictures of a painting in Andy Warhol Museum. The first’s capture path is parallel moving with the object. The second’s capture path is changing the angle i stand.

Slowmo: Usually we use slowmo to record Fast-moving objects to reveal details that are invisible to the naked eye. Here I use it to record the process of “tried yawn-to-true yawn”. I want to see how our facial muscles work differently.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N8TLes2dLv5W0qVgBzE_6vEWV1ocmdJk/view?usp=sharing

Pocket Postulating

GhostTube SLS: I was playing with this app, and I thought it was interesting to capture shadows and to what extent the app identifies a human figure. Once I switched my direction and my shadow deformed, it stopped recognizing it with the tree shadows blending in as well.

Polycam With this app I captured my food and wanted to see how my dumpling would look up close and to see what it is like to be in the food container. I say it was pretty successful.

Timelapse tennis! – The app is effective with still shots and a lot of movement.

the mighty phone

For this exploration, I mainly just opened the app and used it. Not much thought went into what I was capturing but there were a few things I was curious about.

    • For Genius Scan, I was mainly curious about how the scans compare to the document scanner native to the iPhone (in the notes app). For the subject of just the landscape around me, it appears fairly similar.
    • For Slitscan, I wanted to see how motion would affect how the way the slits would build the final image. So, on my walk to campus today, I took a couple of pictures of the view outside the bus, the view of Tepper with trees and grass, and something that I’m not sure of. The first two are with the phone orientation staying still while the phone moves in a linear manner. The last one is moving the orientation of the phone while the phone also moves.
    • For Polycam/Scaniverse, I wanted to see how well it would capture an entire space. It kinda warps reality in a really funky way and I wonder how difficult of a challenge it is to capture 3D objects, because the results were quite interesting.

Genius Scan:

genius scan

iPhone notes app scanner

Slitscan:

Polycam:

Jeju Snowglobe

I plan on doing this activity again, but I first tried to document my tiny snow globe by my window. Its height is the size of my thumb, so it was difficult to get a crisp image of it as a close up photo. I first shook the globe and wanted to capture the movements of the snowflakes using time-lapse and slowmo.

(time-lapse)

(slow-mo)

I initially thought that slow motion would have a better image but I realize as I was shaking the snow globe that the way the flakes move is not that fast. Therefore, it felt more excruciatingly slow to do a slow motion.

Lastly, I did a 3d scan of the globe using Polycam.

Most details of the globe was well captured in the model but it had trouble understanding the “glass” and reflexive surfaces.

Oh the places you’ll go!

You won’t lag behind, because you’ll have the speed.

-Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

Some thoughts while working on this assignment

1. How can we use these tools in ways slightly different from intended? When do these tools not behave as expected/glitch? How can we do this intentionally? What does that reveal about the method of capture?

2. How can I make the method of capture recede in comparison to other considerations? Very media theory…

3. Do I spontaneously capture and look for interesting moments later or do I plan more in advance? Other life events might have helped answer this more than artistic direction…

Methods used: Panorama, Timelapse, Slo-mo

Slight explanation on this one: this was captured while I scrolled through my photos from a summer dance workshop while camping in the mountains.

3D phone scans

First I was playing around with Slit Scan stuff. I was trapped in the Ideate Basement so I did not have great material to capture.

Then I was allowed to leave, and I made some 3D scans of some things at home. It was challenging to find an app that was not behind a paywall, but the one I’m using could export directly to a SketchFab account, where I could download the scans into Blender. The first scan captured a lot of the background in a weird way, so the second one I tried giving it a simpler backdrop. This backfired, and I ended up with more of the environment than the subject. I think the warped space is interesting, I didn’t play around enough to figure out how to purposefully distort it. I chose to scan some of my favorite toys/dolls because I enjoy them and I felt like people on the internet would also like to play with my toys with me. (This was the slit scan app. This is the 3d scan one. Following 2 pics link to SketchFab).

horse 3d scan
First 3D scan attempt
3d scan of doll in bathroom
2nd 3D scan attempt

 

 

 

 

 

blender models
Model 1 uploaded into Blender
weird hands slit scan
Random slit scan attempt