A Vitreous World By: Rashel Thomeh
A Vitreous World
By: Rashel Thomeh To my family and friends for AD 205: Introduction to Computer Graphics their love and support. Fall 2012 Professor: Matthew Wizinsky UIC School of Art and Design
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Have you ever wished you could see through a wall? What if the walls were made out of glass? It would be amusing if they were transparent. Then the world would appear completely different. Or have you ever wanted to stop time? The world I want to live in has a different way of interpreting space and time.
1 1 1 1 Transparency and Colors
In my world, everything is made of glass; Materials with different thicknesses of the walls, fmoors, and furniture are all glass will disperse light like prisms. In transparent. Light goes through the walls, such a world, we can experience literal and there is always a play of light and transparency. colors. 2 3
Once someone told me: “if everything in the world was made out of glass, we would see colors we have never seen before.” Glass will create a greater level of complexity. 4 5
2 2 2 2 Spaces
Objects might also look magnifjed, or minimized due to the different thicknesses of the glass used in any complex. Light will fmow freely in space without being interrupted. 8 9
This world will have a different sense of With greater amount of light and dimension and distance. Things like transparency, spaces will look larger and bush-mazes will be more diffjcult because not interrupted by opaque brick walls. of the optical illusion created by glass. Rather, they will be connected closely to the outside environment. 10 11
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In my world I can play with time, I can Then with only water, one can create always stop it, fjnish my work, and then run beautiful and one of a kind “time-made” it again. I can also stop accidents, such as sculptures; sculpture that would only exist falling of objects. in fragments of a non-existing time, and be destroyed before anyone can ever see them. 14 15
Thinking about this always makes me wonder if anyone else can stop time like me. If yes, a lot of things can happen that no one will notice. 16 17
School of Art and Design University of Illinois 2012 at Chicago
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