Another Rock is an object designed and constructed for the exhibition Objects, at the Secret Life of Buildings Symposium in Austin, Texas. Here, a rendered two-dimensional image of a digital model is used to produce a new, three-dimensional, physical rock. This new rock is comprised of planes - horizontal and vertical sections that instantiate the digital model. To do this, the rendered image is sliced into rows of pixels and stretched, or smeared, across each layer to produce another, more optically blurry, version of the rock's surface, now reduced to swatches and stripes of color. This treatment of the image has two effects: one, the overall object appears to be a 3D translation of the image but from certain angles the optical effects of the layers interfere with that appearance; and two, qualities of the image such as hue and saturation are retained in the graphic pixel stripes, but their representational status (as parts of an image of a rock) is disrupted.
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