Thursday, March 15, 2012

Inspirations - An M.C. Escher Visualization

Cristóbal Vila created this  video as an homage to M.C. Escher.

It's a short movie inspired from Escher's work and a free vision on how it could be in his workplace.

We show the completed movie, the Wireframe version and the early, "work-in-progress" version, while it was being created...


INSPIRATIONS from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo.

Eugene Buchko gives the back story to the opening scene:

When the creator of the game of chess showed his invention to the ruler of the country, the ruler was so pleased that he gave the inventor the right to name his prize for the invention. The wise man asked the king: for the first square of the chess board, he would receive one grain of wheat (in some tellings, rice), two for the second one, four on the third one, and so forth, doubling the amount each time. The ruler, arithmetically unaware, quickly accepted the inventor’s offer, even getting offended by his perceived notion that the inventor was asking for such a low price. But when the treasurer started doing the calculations, it quickly surfaced that this was an impossible offer to fulfill. Given the request, the final tally would have been 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 grains!


INSPIRATIONS Wireframes from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo.

This was a Work in Progress. The present video was a rough draft, without textures nor materials, just to see the camera motion.


INSPIRATIONS - Work in Progress from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo.

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