{"id":553,"date":"2022-08-17T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isjtar.org\/?p=553"},"modified":"2025-02-14T13:59:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T12:59:59","slug":"mud-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/isjtar.org\/index.php\/2022\/08\/17\/mud-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Mud Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Delirious Departures, we worked with the scans of railway stations that had accidental artefacts of travelers. Instead of filtering out junk 3D, we emphasized these static figures with their sculptural qualities.<br>We needed other figures, that we could animate and make interactive. I approach 3D more and more as one does clay or other material in sculpture, not so much in a hands-on matter, but as a material that has intrinsic qualities that can someties best be left raw.<br><br>I started scanning team members with the Leica scanner, this is a bad idea altogether, as it is much too slow, people move slighty between scans and the resolution is too low.<br>By applying algorithms that thicken the 3D material and then removing chunks with noises, we came to what we call the mud figures, disjointed cloth like figures that are ethereal (and a bit scary).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"919\" height=\"1008\" data-attachment-id=\"554\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/isjtar.org\/index.php\/2022\/08\/17\/mud-figures\/mudfigure\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/isjtar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mudfigure.png?fit=919%2C1008\" data-orig-size=\"919,1008\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mudfigure\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Delirious Departures Mudfigure by Isjtar Vanebroeck&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/isjtar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mudfigure.png?fit=274%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/isjtar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mudfigure.png?fit=919%2C1008\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/isjtar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mudfigure.png?resize=919%2C1008&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"mud figure delrious departures\" class=\"wp-image-554 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/isjtar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mudfigure.png?w=919 919w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/isjtar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mudfigure.png?resize=274%2C300 274w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/isjtar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mudfigure.png?resize=768%2C842 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/isjtar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mudfigure.png?resize=547%2C600 547w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/isjtar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mudfigure.png?resize=590%2C647 590w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 919px) 100vw, 919px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 919px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 919\/1008;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can see them inaction in a rather rough recording here:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"2022_Siggraph Vancouver\" data-src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/750020154?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Delirious Departures, we worked with the scans of railway stations that had accidental artefacts of travelers. Instead of filtering out junk 3D, we emphasized these static figures with their sculptural qualities.We needed other figures, that we could animate and make interactive. I approach 3D more and more as one does clay or other material in sculpture, not so much in a hands-on matter, but as a material that has intrinsic qualities that can someties best be left raw. I started scanning team members with the Leica scanner, this is a bad idea altogether, as it is much too slow, people move slighty between scans and the resolution is too low.By applying algorithms that thicken the 3D material and then removing chunks with noises, we came to what we call the mud figures, disjointed cloth like figures that are ethereal (and a bit scary). You can see them inaction in a rather rough recording here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[16,17,19,20],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-process","tag-3d","tag-crew","tag-delirious-departures","tag-houdini"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/isjtar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mudfigure.png?fit=919%2C1008","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paeaLp-8V","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":600,"url":"http:\/\/isjtar.org\/index.php\/2023\/05\/17\/delirious-departures-3d-print\/","url_meta":{"origin":553,"position":0},"title":"Delirious Departures 3D Print","date":"May 17, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"I isolated some of the accidental person scans of Delirious Departures, processed them so that the details are very apparent. 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