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Phil Caya

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Exhibitions

Zupermat

Zupermat is the infinite documentary on the life of pseudo-random rectangular cuboids. Sometimes a deep dive into a particular side of their construction, other times a broad portrait of their organization as gangs, mob and anarcho-secret societies.

The smooth and transient aspects of Zupermat will let the collector cohabitate with the piece while softly populating his peripheral vision. A brief glance, while immersed in reflection, should provide the reassuring motion to dive deeper into thought - or emerge with a newfound sense of direction.

You can browse the collection on Artblocks or Archepelago.

published: May 6th, 2022

library: three.js r124

controls: [space] to pause and reflect

Zupermat - Notes and Features

This piece started with the idea of taking 2d-paper-and-paint constructivism and suprematism and expressing it in a three dimensional space.

For a deeper dive into the technical details and ideas behind Zupermat, an Artblocks: Behind the Code episode is available on the tube:

On Animation and the point of view

As I was working of lighting and composition, I kept navigating into the piece to verify alignments, check the lighting and debug the rendering. As the piece matured, I kept rendering the structure front and center and often the point of view was missing a beautiful detail hidden by a larger object. It became clear that I had to find a way to make these details available to the viewer because it added a lot to my enjoyment of the piece. I experimented with intro animation and different point of view and decided to build into the piece a longform travelling camera that randomly visits every ship in the composition. The point of view is biased towards a long frontal view (also with a random element) and will once in a while pick an object and travel close to it and allow to viewer to take in all the detail (or lack thereof ;-) of this new point of view. The spacebar freezes the motion and let's you take a screenshot of enjoy the piece from that angle for a longer time.

Traits and Features

The following is a short description of most of the features of Zupermat. Most of the features are based on randomly generated number and are converted to descriptive strings in the token to simplyfy comparison and search.

Angle Regime

piet: 90° angles

von: 45° angles

vich: random angles

Edges

The ships have rounded edges. This feature caracterizes the radius of the edge. There are 3 mode with some wiggle room: tight, rounded and bubble

bubbly

rounded

tight

Environment

This feature is the background.

backplaned

very light

very dark

Organization

The organization addresses the way ships are positioned in space. In a gang organization, three directions are chosen and ships are positioned tightly around the direction beams. In a mob organization, 5 directions are chosen and the ship a placed in those directions but in a loose manner. In the anarchopanda organization, their is no organization. Ships are beamed out in every direction.