“MICROCOSM” by Takayama

Conference:

• SIGGRAPH 2004
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Title:

MICROCOSM

Length:

2:59

Director(s):

• Joe Takayama

Description:

Looking through a microscope, we find the micro cosmos where many curious things exist: snowflakes, pollen, germs, and so on. Microbes such as freshwater algae are very interesting. Although their geometric cell structure is very simple, they reveal a variety of artistic forms. This work is an attempt to use original software to represent a micro world. Square metaballs (meta-cubes) were used as the main algorithm for modeling the algae-like objects.

Additional Contributors:

Producer: Joe Takayama
Faculty Supervisor: Etsuo Genda
Contributors: Tatsuro Ishii, Shingo Harada, Yuichiro Yamashiro