“Communication: Horizon” by Yoshiyuki Abe

Title:

Communication: Horizon

Artist(s) and People Involved:

Exhibiting Artist(s):

Yoshiyuki Abe

Symposium:

TISEA: Third International Symposium on Electronic Art

Creation Year:

1991

Artist Statement:

In 1983, the quaternion images produced by Alan Norton shocked me with features that I had never imagined before. I felt I looked at the place I had to be. An unsatisfied photographer with real objects before the camera lens started `his computer-imaging project immediately.

All works exhibited here were generated by ray-tracing algorithms and primitives of hyperbolic-paraboloids. Although we can define parameters such as colours, light sources, surface attrib-utes and so on, it is hard to predict the exact result — especially in abstracts provided by the complicated ray behavour. Many trial images are needed in order to create a work. In fact, I produce numerous images in this time-consum-ing process. Nevertheless, because it is capable of producing images we have never seen before, math-based imaging is the only method I use in computer graphics.