So, it’s finally snowing here….

MatericLook: SnowyDay_v000 by Francesco Perratone, Italy Photography and art

until now there’s not much here. It will not last long, maybe more further up the mountains.

Let’s hope so, it will be good to do some late snowshoes hiking, always a good practive for taking some nice winter photos!

Have a wonderful week, everyone!

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Snowing! :-)

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New works added to the shop!

Hello everyone! Following the suggestions from my patrons and my mailing list subscribers, I’ve just finished setting up a bunch of additional works in the shop. I also increased the font contrast, now it should be easy to read on a wide range of different conditions and screens.

You can take a look here , let me know what do you think. Of course if you find some errors, bugs or other problems, please also notify in the comments.

And of course, tell me which ones are the works you would like to see added next!

Thanks a lot!

The list of the work I just added:

Arches0

BadCliff

Balance

BeachDusk0

BeachDusk1

BeachDusk2

BeachMorning0

BeachMorning1

BlackSea0

CanalPoles

Countryside0

Countryside1

Flow00

GreenShrimp

Landscape00

LightHouse0

LightHouse1

ParkingCart

RailroadByTheSun

RamoDelRosa

SeaCoastInDarkInk0

SeaCoastInDarkInk1

SoloAutumn

SundanceRange

Tenacious

TheBalcony

TheWheel

Totem0

Totem1

Tunnel0

Have a nice evening/day! :-)

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Hello! lately I’ve been absent, due to a few overlapping projects as a freelancer… sorry about that. I couldn’t complete any new work, but I want to update you on what’s going on and throw some ideas around 😉

The freelancing projects I’m working on are (partially) related to graphics and the like, I’m speaking of 2D animation, 3D animation and some electronics (related to transmitting and recording video wirelessly).

BUT I’m also working on an art-related project with Paolo.  We’re creating a pair of “video” installations, one similar to a projeciton mapping on a real icosahedron:

(DISCLAIMER: the following pics and video aren’t nice, they’re purely for documentation purposes; also, you’ll find some light technical babble reading on)

MatericLook: DoPe Projection Icosahedron #0

A standard projector will cover half the icosahedron’s  shape. It will be placed in a room corner at a friend’s exhibition in November. I’ll use the faces and shape to create some interesting transitions and animations. Some of our previous animations, (mainly from the Spheres series) will be used as elements, as well as new things.

But the second, less defined part  is what I have more updates about: Paolo got an old film projector (Super Almo is its name). It was hand-operated and the light came from an old lamp…

We decided to restore and modify it, you can see some pictures here, showing the parts and the modifications. I wanted all changes to be reversible, so I mostly removed and substituted parts. The only “hard” change was done to the manual advancement handle…. you’ll see later why:

MatericLook: DoPe Projectior #0

MatericLook: DoPe Projectior #0

MatericLook: DoPe Projectior #0

MatericLook: DoPe Projectior #0

So the changes have been made to the lamp, replaced by a crude high intensity LED array. I added along the light path a “reflection cone” to optimize the light flux and reduce dispersion.

The back reflective dish wasn’t useful anymore because the LED are nicely directional, compared to a traditional lamp.

The projector also became A LOT lighter by removing an electric transformer, plus some switches and plugs. Now everything is powered by a refurbished PC power supply.

To the film advancement mechanism then…

Paolo had the idea of “motorizing” it and to somehow paint and draw on a transparent film to show our content… He sourced a (less)old cordless screwdriver, so I worked on a small, simple circuit piloted by a microcontroller (Arduino), constantly moving back and forth the film… enjoy!:


As you can see, “traditional” film isn’t making any sense because of the continuous lighting and speed.

Next we’ll experiment two different things, first to create some ad-hoc content (the painting/drawing I was speaking of, these will evolve along the length of the film roll, to take advantage of the optical effect).

Then I want to use the microcontroller to control the LED lights as a shutter. By turning them on and off pretty fast they should show a sequence of  full frames only. This approach will also require (probably) a finer circuit to control the motor (thus film speed).

 

I will keep you updated on this and other projects, let me know what do you think on the comments! Thank you!

PS one more thing: if you received and answered the survey you should get the small free print, if you haven’t already! Let me know when you get it and what do you think!

 

 

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Update – ongoing project(s) #1 – projections and projectors

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