Lenticular Waterwheels: Simultaneous Kinetic and Embedded Animation

• Scott Hessels

• SIGGRAPH 2017: Unsettled Artifacts: Technological Speculations from Latin America

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• After decades as a novelty, lenticular technology has resurfaced in compelling large-scale projects. Without any required energy, the medium offers stereography without glasses and frame animation without electronics. A kinetic artwork installed in a remote river in the French mountains broke from the technology’s previous restrictions of static and flat display, recalculated the print mathematics for a curved surface, and explored narrative structures for a moving image on a moving display. This paper documents how the sculpture used custom steel fabrication, site-specific energy, and revised lens calculation to present a previously unexplored hybrid of animation.

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3072966

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