「たゆたうデザイン」

街に出ての素材探しもかねてからしているが、素材研究をしようと思いネットをさまよっているとDerivativeというサイトを発見した。青山Pradaの映像作品開発にたずさわっていたところで、サイトには研究開発、素材の写真が多数掲載されている。中にはCGアニメーションを使ってるものもあり興味深い。テクノロージーを駆使して研究開発された形態というものも面白いものだ。映像と素材と形態が相互に呼応してる建築として見るとまた変わった見方が出来るかもしれない。昼と夜の違った側面を映像との融合で垣間見ることが出来る。そう見ていくとたゆたうデザインが見えてきた。Derivative is dedicated to advance the way people make art. Touch Tools are Derivative's software products for designing and performing live visuals.
Derivative's team of designers, developers, animators and artists recently completed realtime generative video projections for the PRADA Epicenter store in Tokyo by adapting Touch to seamlessly meld with architect Jacques Herzog's vision.
The projections simulate a corporeal quality, taking on subtle forms characterized by fluid movement of organic texture and forms, providing a constantly changing architectural element. The completely synthesized imagery behaves according to sunrise/sunset times and moon phase, derived from the building’s longitude and latitude. These digitally-generated images are shaped and projected on five different surfaces of the store.
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• Prada Japan and Herzog & de Meuron bring on Derivative for Architectural Visuals

Designers of interactive 3D software for live visuals, Derivative teamed up with PRADA and architectural visionaries Herzog & de Meuron to launch Hypersurface, a live animated architectural element in the new PRADA Tokyo Epicenter store.
The new PRADA building utilizes Derivative's powerful Academy Award winning visual effects technology for creating animated architectural surfaces. The sunrise and sunset, moon cycle and time of year guide the phases of HyperSurface's programmed behavior.
Each of the PRADA building's five HyperSurface projections is customized to the shape of the surface it projects upon and the in-store lighting environment. The daytime appearance is designed for in-store viewing, while it transitions through sunset to a nighttime design for viewing from outside the store.
HyperSurface is authored in TouchDesigner, Derivative's complete content-editing tool for the creation of visual synthesizers. In contrast with playing fixed video loops, the synthesizers are played by TouchMixer on graphics-enhanced PCs to generate constantly changing imagery.
Because of the immediacy of TouchDesigner, it enables a great deal of on-site revision and refinement of the artwork. Herzog & de Meuron were able to evolve the impression of the artwork in the context of the rest of the building right up to opening date, making for a more integrated look. For the architect, Touch makes live visuals easier to design, produce and perfect.