Space-time cubification of artistic shapes

Abstract

This poster describes an original approach to creating and producing artistic shapes in a cubist style. We propose mathematical models and algorithms of adding cubist features to (or cubification of) time-variant sculptural shapes as well as a practical technological pipeline embracing all the main phases of their production. A novel method is proposed for faceting and local distortion of the given artistic shape. A new concept of a 4D cubist camera is introduced for multiple projections from 4D space-time to 3D space and combining them using space-time blending to create animated sculptures. 3D printing for stop-motion animation is considered as one of the final pipeline processing stages. The proposed techniques are implemented with artist friendly user interfaces and experimental results are presented.