Stewart Dickson: 3-D Zoetrope

Artist(s):

• Stewart Dickson

Title:

3-D Zoetrope

Exhibition:

• SIGGRAPH 2000: Art Gallery

Creation Year:

2000

Medium:

Kinetic Sculpture

Size:

48 inches x 24 inches x 36 inches

Category:

• 3D & Sculpture

Keywords:

• kinetic sculpture
• zoetrope

Artist Statement:

A Zoetrope is constructed by attaching 60 phases of an object in metamorphosis to a rotating wheel. The “animation” is “frozen” in space via synchronized stroboscopic lighting. The metamorphosis is a torus turning “inside-out” at three points on its surface.

Costa’s genus 1 three-ended minimal surface is topologically equivalent to a simple torus.

Thanks to collaborators at the PRISM Center, Arizona State University

Technical Information:

Software: The Mathematica system for doing mathematics by computer (Wolfram Research, Inc.), Custom software by Stewart Dickson
Hardware: SGI, Stratasys Genisys Fused, Deposition Modeling (FDM) Machine