Schedule:
Oct 1 – Oct 8
-Finish Defining visual style.
-Define the aesthetics of space design for an entity whose potentialities can be seen.
—ie. Open spaces so you can see where your potentialities are travelling.
—ie. Spaces for quiet resting where you can see yourself without your potentialities.
-Produce initial concepts for building designs.
-Finalize the map.
-Start fleshing out storylines for the text in the politics and history sections.
Oct 8 – Oct 15
-Model and create images for the key buildings/locations in Maya and Photoshop.
-Finish writing storylines for the politics and history sections.
Oct 15 – Oct 22
-Layout the atlas physical structure (linking strands between pages, transparencies, etc.) and graphic layout of the individual pages.
-Write up philosophical ideas and physics of plurality sections.
-Create images to accompany each of the sections of the atlas.
Oct 22 – Oct 26
-Wrap up any final loose ends and finish the atlas.
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Visual Style:
-I would like to keep the look and feel of much of the world consistent with present day urban landscapes, not a huge deviation with flying cars and shiny chrome like many sci-fi depictions. It is people in the urban setting of today, but with the newfound ability to see their potentials for action.
-I am imagining the visual look of individuals with their potentialities spread out ahead of them looking like a transparent rotoscoping of their movements spread out ahead of them, much like (“http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1411/570698178_03c5dbfaee.jpg?v=0“), or like an exagerrated motion blur of sorts (“http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d65/minus243degreesc/shiftingreality.jpg“).
-Places of closely overlapping realities like the nuke site of New Geneva I imagine looking somewhat like a ghosted overlay of the real world, much like (“http://www.screenhead.com/funny/LarsenLarsenLarsenLarsen4444.JPG“)
-The Long Strand areas would be typically newer architecture, designed around the aesthetics of individuals who are entities extended through time. This would include design around large open areas allowing the long strands to see their potentialities far into the distance ahead of them, like (“http://www.thyssenkrupp.com/ml/pb/bilder/699/07_quartier_atrium_headquarter_large.jpg“), and (“http://uk.cbs.dk/var/cbs/storage/images-versioned/32288/2-dan-DK/kilen_atrium1.jpg”). Other aspects would be construction using transparent glass walls and doors also to facilitate seeing your strand far into the future such as (“http://www.arcat.com/photos/kwikwall/113046.jpg“), and designing space to allow for orderly flow of traffic so your view of your strand is not lost among the crowd.
-The short strand areas are much different due to their low class status. Buildings are old, badly maintained and neglected like modern day ghettos (“http://www.stillsecureafteralltheseyears.com/photos/uncategorized/ghetto.jpg“). This area is walled off from the long strand districts along much of their border (“http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Berlin-wall.jpg“) and movement is highly restricted.