Exercise 8

For this exercise, I took the image of a texture (bamboo stalks) and a space (Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum) and abstractly modeled them on Form-Z. The bamboo is broken up into three layers: the stalks, the connection pieces, and small tubes of white that represent the highlights on the texture of the bamboo on the original photo. The museum space is broken up into the transparent background with an abstraction of mullions, curvy walls that stretch up to the ceiling, and solid cylinders that represent the walls that meet the ground plane. In both sets of images, the natural light provides little contrast. The spotlights are located within the models and therefore create a different sense of depth. The hybrid lighting conditions have a greater sense of contrast.