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Thesis Info
- LABS ID
- 00514
- Thesis Title
- Unfolding Space
- Author
- Julieta Aguilera
- E-mail
- julietina AT me.com
- 2nd Author
- 3rd Author
- Degree
- MFA
- Year
- 2006
- Number of Pages
- 22
- University
- University of Illinois at Chicago
- Thesis Supervisor
- Daria Tsoupikova
- Supervisor e-mail
- datsoupi AT evl.uic.edu
- Other Supervisor(s)
- Dan Sandin, Dana Plepys, Franz Fischnaller
- Language(s) of Thesis
- English
- Department / Discipline
- Art and Design
- Copyright Ownership
- Julieta Aguilera
- Languages Familiar to Author
- Spanish, English, French
- URL where full thesis can be found
- www.evl.uic.edu/julieta/thesis/docs/UNFOLD_thesis.pdf
- Keywords
- VR, higher dimensions, embodiment
- Abstract: 200-500 words
- UNFOLDING SPACE is a VR enveloping landscape of concave and convex forms, which are determined by the orientation and displacement of the user in relation to a grid made of tesseracts (cubes in four dimensions)7. The interface accepts input from tridimensional and four dimensional transformations, and smoothly displays such interactions in real-time. In- stead of navigating the familiar landscape of volumes, space is attached to the shadow of a higher dimensional grid, which can then be turned around, to stretch or compress their sides to face the person. Such shadow projected to three dimensions use the distortion of tridi- mensional perspective to organize visual hierarchy. Stereo visualization and real-time com- puter graphics also allow us to integrate the dynamic abilities of the human body for ac- cessing higher dimensions while assimilating complex configurations. The motion of the per- son becomes the graphic element whereas the higher dimensional grid references to his/her position relative to it. The person learns how motion inputs affect the grid, recognizing a correlation between the input and the transformations.