ANIMATED WINDOW TONES 1

Having developed a way of turning the towers windows into a visual beat I now need a way to read them, animate them and to turn them into an audio accompaniment.

Here are a few initial considerations:

1. How to show which tone is being read and how many to read at one time.
2. Which view to show the window tones in (Front-on, perspective, top plan etc.)
3. At what tempo the tones are to be read and does this tempo change at all.

Below is a reel of animated studies I produced to help answer these questions.




The first test has the tones as invisible but reads them using a render bar to show up the forms. This I feel is effective in highlighting the undercover nature of the building.

The next two has the tones as semi-transparent but varies the viewing angle.

The final three explore differing camera views and projections but also vary the lighting within the scene. I have animated the light source to move up to replicate the suns movement over the building. This has the effect of altering the shadows cast by the tones and therefore producing a secondary visual beat in the tones and on the bottom level of tones.

This is something that I will investigate further as it could be used to alter volume for example.

The tempo reads the section in 3 seconds and I feel may be too fast.

PROCESS ANIMATION

Here is a small animation showing exactly how the relief mapping results in varied 3D form. At frame zero the 'Top level' is set to 0% and steadily increases to 100%. Note that most of the movement occurs in a very short time, this is due to the fact that the levels in the relief map are very close together in value.