KINETIC CARTOGRAPHY
Mega Module: Moving Maps
Studio Designer and Instructor: Tucker van Leuwen-Hall
During this studio, we chose different regions and created a video of the region’s google earth. Then, we converted the video into a geographical dataset using Illustrator, After Effects, and Photoshop. Using this dataset as the input, we ran a “Latent Walk” video through ML-Runway machine learning program. After defining the displacement map (height map), vegetation map, and water map, we applied some effects in After Effects to turn these 2-dimensional maps into 3-dimensional ones. In Cinema 4D, we imported three maps, and through some Cinema 4D effectors and deformers, we made a 3-dimensional environment map that was fictitious, imaginary, and unique. Octane Render Engine provided fast GPU-Based animations of the imaginary environment we had created.