Joe Takayama: MICROCOSM

Artist(s):

Joe Takayama

Title:

MICROCOSM

Exhibition:

SIGGRAPH 2004: Synaesthesia
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Creation Year:

2004

Medium:

Art & Design

Size:

Length 2:59

Artist Statement:

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.