Evan Robarts

I like these two scanner drawings made by Evan Robarts in 2010.  Basically the glass was damaged through a drill and an orbital hand sander in the second one into the post. The whole concept is great as both scanners as sculptures and the final monochromatic digital c-prints. I'm curious about to see random stuff scanned using these glasses, is like a drawing sign. Recommend to check out other nice paintings and sculptures by Evan Robarts. See more;

Scanner Drawing #4. 2010

Scanner Drawing #2. 2010

Transmission: New Remote Earth Views

Transmission: New Remote Earth Views, 2012 by Dan Holdsworth_

"In Dan Holdsworth’s latest series Transmission: New Remote Earth Views, he appropriates topographical data to document the ideologically and politically loaded spaces of the American West in an entirely new way. In his images of the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Mount Shasta, Mount St. Helens, Salt Lake City and Park City, we see stark, uninterrupted terrains where meaning is made through what it is absent, as much as what is seen. What at first appears to be a pure white snow-capped mountain is in fact a digitally rendered laser scan of the earth appropriated from United States Geological Survey data, a ‘terrain model’ used to measure climate and land change – to measure man’s effect on the earth.

Belying his empirical methodology is the fact that each of these terrains has a rich and conflicting cultural legacy. Beginning with the idealised aesthetic of the Romantic sublime via the deadpan industrial frames of the New Topographics photographers a century later, each has been subject to the gaze of artistic, political, and sociological categories claiming this territory as their own. Extending ideas of the frontier and seeing anew, Transmission captures the world as if from space, functioning not only as a map of the land but as a mapping of the discourses that these lands have come to represent." See more;

"Working outside of the wilderness myths that render the images from the photographic avant-garde the ‘after’ to nineteenth-century visions of Carlton Watkins’ ‘before’, Holdsworth opens up a working territory that is open to the ambiguous and ethereal, oscillating between realms of art and science, the familiar and the alien, the industrial and the natural. Without the signifiers of the natural there is no idealised wilderness or picturesque aesthetic, no invoking of the Romantic version of the sublime; and yet at the same time what is antithetical to these visual tropes - the man-made, the artificial, the vernacular of the New Topographics photographers – is also absent."

Exhibited at Brancolini Grimaldi during 23.March.2012 - 19.May.2012
Photo credit: Mike Bruce_

Salt Lake City

(set of 17)

Mount Shasta

(set of 27)

Mount St. Helens

(set of 22)

Grand Canyon

(set of 12)

Yosemite

(set of 12)

Installation_

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Assaf Shaham

Assaf Shaham is working on an ongoing series called "American Dream", consisting in national US monuments, sculptures and buildings distorted through scanner. See more;

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FABIAN HAEUSERMANN 2011

I'm fan of Fabian Haeusermann' works, I love the resized-repetition process he uses to create his pieces. Fabian was the author for the fourth Special Post here at Triangulation where you can see his previous work. 

Most of Fabian Haeusermann' works are quite small (A4 and smaller), he often uses a technical ink pen that allows him to work precise. "It’s a brilliant tool for the cross-hatch technique: It allows you to shade the drawing until it’s almost black - but you still can see the textures." See more;

"My works are usually based on clear geometric shapes like circles, triangles, rectangles... No matter how many details the image contains: It should be based on a clear composition. I like the combination of details / fine textures and clear geometric shapes. I prefer to have a vision of the geometric composition before I start to draw. Most images are concentric, they have a clear center. I also like symmetry. I try to use as little colors as possible. Colors should have a clear function, a symbolic meaning instead of just beeing sweet and decorative.

I also like to use the computer to downsize what I’ve drawn on paper, then print the reduced size version on a new A4 paper and go on drawing ...As soon as I’ve filled the new A4 paper I downsize and print it again etc. etc." - Fabian Haeusermann

See more on Fabian's Flickr

Scanner 3D by Thomas Lebécel

ENSCI's student Thomas Lebécel created this rotational 3D scanner. The scanner uses a laser pointer moving along a ring-shaped track around an object to find a set of 3D points that define the object’s shape.

ENSCI is a product design school in Paris, I recommend check all projects from the different students, there are really great works. See more;

"The realization of 3D files, is now essential for the programming of machining on all types of CNC machines. Make these 3D files can be complicated and tedious, especially when we want to achieve complex shapes.

The 3D scanner appears to be a good alternative for drafts of 3D files, starting fromsimple modeling with clay or play dough. We can also scan existing objects to possibly modify, or replicate. Following my research on various open source technologies to scan the existingprocesses, I realized that they operate by a process of scanning a laser faisseau on the object, coupled with a simultaneous shooting. However, this technique does notdiscern any that maybe hollow objects. For these reasons, I was directed to a system using a lens proximeter rotate aroundthe object. This technique allows me to capture a greater amount of detail."

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ScanLAB Projects

ScanLAB is an ongoing series of experimental projects investigating the use of 3D laser scanning in architecture. 3D scanning is an emerging architectural discourse and a potent tool for design and fabrication.

ScanLAB is run by Matthew Shaw and William Trossell who explore 3D scanning at all scales, from intricately detailed object to vast cityscapes. The technologies employed range from desktop self‐assemblages to state of the art LiDAR based surveying tools. See more;

Fabricate 2011 Conference Venue Scan

"We are privileged to have been a part of the hugely successful , exhibition and publication last weekend 14th+15h April.  As well as exhibiting our HD light boxes alongside Gramazio & Kohler's live robotic fabrication we snapped a few quick 3D scans of events throughout the weekend.  The video shows a quick animation through the chemistry auditorium during a great presentation by Tim Lucas of Price & Myers." 

Bartlett Summer Show 2010 [Plan_Section_Elevation]

"In the last Bartlett School of Architecture's Summer Show, 48 hours of colour 3D scanning produced 64 scans of the entire exhibition space using a Faro Photon 120 laser scanner. These have been compiled to form a complete 3D replica of the temporary show which has been distilled into a navigable animation (see next video) and a series of 'standard' architectural drawings. This body of work creates a permanent record of the temporary exhibition, not through recording images or video but solely through 3D scanning. The process of 3D scanning captures full colour millimetre perfect, spatial data of the models, drawings and exhibition spaces and allows them to be revisited long after the show has finished.

In these drawings, a three dimensional, sensual and temporary experience, is abstracted into a series of precisely detailed snap shots in time. The work becomes a collage of hours of delicately created lines and forms set within a feature prefect representation of the exhibition space."

Scanning the Mist

ScanLAB has been speculating on the capabilities of 3D scanning, and they thought it might be interesting to see if the scanner could detect smoke and mist. These are the amazing results! This test-experiment is part of the later site specific work "Slow Becoming Delightful".

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