2D Twist

or how I twisted a Plan to a landscape

In the same way that Quill, radically importing 2D tools in a 3D space, produces Quillustration, mashup between illustration and 3Dmodel, I immersed mysel in VR focusing this time on the capacity to generate a landscape from a simple plan. (for previous see here)

Developing a landscape based on a simple sketch, exploring its geometric potential (the reason whyI choosed it) having in mind to solve differents questions:
Local/Global: howto plan simultaneously the soil under my feet and the hill there ?
Solid/Atmospheric: howto generate both ground / sky, solid and gaseous ?
Close/Distant: howto deal with boundaries and horizon ?
Abstract/concret: Howto deal with realities

Step 1

first: uploading the sketch in Quill, my initial pattern

I used the simple tool “straight line” to fill my pattern and as usual I’m bluffed by the inherent spatiality I found zooming in

So it’s random ?

No it is not … and yes it is ! Filling the pattern, you have to choose multiple things, the filling tool, straight or free? round? square? flat? its thickness, its color. In that case, choosing to fill from a Top view had consequences in the height control (and that was ok for me in this case). I have an intuition about the spatiality that will emerge but I always apreciate when the tool has some kind of autonomy.

first layer was duplicated, the second one is darker, both were distorted using nudge tool on large scale

Step 2

From that I start using layers properties, duplication, opacity, scale, and different “modifier” tools, acting on color, hue, saturation, or on structure, position with nudge tool.

Previously I noticed an interesting proprety of the nudge tool, between a property and a bug in the 3Dmodel generated by the painting.

The nudge tool allows us to push the drawing but drags remain (kind of bug?), if find in it the possibility to produce alternate and unexpected results from an original pattern.

the original pattern after use of Hue tool (to “blue” it), thicknes tool to modily the structure and nudge tool to distort, to twist

Atmospheric

aurora borealis in VR

Boundaries / Horizon

black, blue, white background

Working directly in VR, painting in virtual space allows a quick understanding of what realy matter, here, a white background in which the drawing melts found both reflects in the water, boundaries and horizon of a foggy landscape

Howto deal with realities ?

Aurora borealis is iconic enough to adapt in VR, even in purple and blue under a daylight of a foggy landscape, and that, at least for me, could be a gateway for designing space in VR.

Space in VR could be strongly abstract as long as it resonate with our daily space through iconic pieces. (ok this is just an hypothesis for now…)