Bjornson's Morphing Sculptie Blends Art and Code
Artist Vlad Bjornson opens new avenues for expression through his Sculpted Thoughts art piece. The morphing sculpture impresses the eye with a smart mashup of sculptie functionality and the Second Life media interface. The sculptie object is coded to take on a new shape as it cycles through the textures from a QuickTime movie stream.
SL limitations in this area were surpassed with some clever and custom scripts made by the artist. For example, Bjornson's sculptie is updated at a speed of almost 8 frames per second in order to maintain a smooth animation (see the machinima demo above). "If sculpties reacted to the video stream properly, [the motion] would be totally fluid [...] SL probably doesn't pick up the changes otherwise", explains scripter Candide LeMay.
Thanks to Gwyneth Llewelyn for the tip. You can see the sculpture yourself at Caledon Highlands.
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. Just......Wow.
Awesome job. I'll be seeing this close-up soon.
Posted at 12:14AM on Sep 12th 2007 by Kahni Poitier
5. That is so cool! Very innovative =)
Posted at 2:17PM on Sep 12th 2007 by October Hush
1. that is amazing!
Posted at 11:30PM on Sep 11th 2007 by j-wu