The Storm Cone
AR public art installation
Art direction: Laura Daly
3D assets: Catherine Chapman
Development: Nela Ion, Ignacio Roca, University of Salford
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In 2021 I was commissioned to create an architecturally accurate
representation of a Victorian wrought iron bandstand, made in
collaboration with artist Laura Daly. The design is a combination of
hand-chosen elements from the original ironwork catalogs. I processed
high-quality scans of the bandstand’s elements in Photoshop to make them
white outlines with alpha channels. I then UV mapped them onto the
geometry in Blender. We took the model through multiple phases of
testing in Unity and in AR on mobile devices to check that the textures
were displayed optimally and with the right aesthetic quality. I added
further layers of noise patterns subtracted from the textures to add
variation and a cloudlike, ghostly effect.
“This site-specific spatial sound installation traces
lost bandstands in England, using geo-locative and immersive
technologies. It’s commissioned by Metal for NetPark, the world’s
first digital park, and the University of Salford in Manchester for
Peel Park.Experienced via GPS mobile devices and headphones, audience
movement will trigger and alter the 3D sounds of newly commissioned
brass music by Lucy Pankhurst and eight adjacent digital soundworks in
and around the sites of lost bandstands. They will be able to navigate
through 3D model of a bandstand using the AR technology.”
via:
🔗metalculture.com/whats-on/the-storm-cone/