Impossible and hyper-real elements of architecture : exercises, provocations, and theories of digital representation / Carl Lostritto, with contributions by Viola Ago, Julie Kress, and Hans Tursack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lostritto, Carl, author.

Ago, Viola, author.

Kress, Julie, author.

Tursack, Hans, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rendering (Computer graphics).

Architectural rendering.

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

381 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[Novato, California] : Applied Research and Design Publishing, an imprint of ORO Editions, [2023]

Summary:

"How and why do architects, artists and designers manipulate reality? This book answers that question by examining what it means to render, draw, represent, and mediate the elements that make up and affect our digital and physical worlds. From pixels and rooms to gaming spaces and dioramas, this book exposes approaches to rendering that are equal parts instructive and critical. In the pursuit of the strange and the uncanny, digital media and software aren't taken for granted, nor are they always used as intended. This journey is forward-looking about the emerging role of gaming engines, volumetric raytracing, and procedural shaders, but also looks back and samples from some '80s and '90s classics including MacPaint, DOOM, the Star Trek Holodeck, and the film Predator."--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction

Bits mapped

Every grid is mapped / by Julie Kress

Using a tree to represent a tree

A room that becomes a diorama; a diorama afflicted with room envy

Rendering the almost invisible

Operating on the violence-aggression axis / by Viola Ago

Anxious vision: real time and the first-person perspective view / by Hans Tursack

Transition elements: rendering by drawing

Image animation index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781951541552

1951541553

OCLC:

1332951415