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cloud-piercer · 5 years ago

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ten years late but finally tried to remember some notes and ramblings i wanted to make for roads orz

zhang jiale’s siblings are all also named jia-somethings bc i headcanoned that jia is the generational name, so everyone in his generation has that character. for the crazy chinese family trees this is a neat way to figure out who’s who (under the bold assumption that anyone actually remembers who’s who). plus, it saved me time thinking up names /insert discord joy emoji here

the ‘le’ character in zjl’s name can also be pronounced as ‘yue’, so when one of his cousins suggested passing zjl off as zhang jiayue, it could have happened! even his id would agree to it, as iirc there’s no pinyin on the chinese id card

with the travelling part i legit spent so much time googling travel times between cities and places to visit... zhang jiale is living my fantasy of travelling around china, just with more emotional baggage, and im lowkey jealous. on one hand, going places, on the other hand, ouch.

speaking of emotional baggage, delving into zjl’s character was just. somewhere in between wanting to give him a blanket and a hot chocolate, and knowing it would slide off him like water. all i can say is he has much better mental fortitude than me, i’d have called it quits after s5 or s6 at the latest. writing his slow, slow recovery was cathartic and draining at once

side note: i really adore fics where the author slowly wrings the emotions from you until you’re left emotionally bruised all over, so to everyone whose comments suggest i pulled off even a fraction of that - thank you so much!

as this got written it spiralled wildly out of control... i still remember when i thought it would be a nice calm 7k at best. good times. at one point it was a running joke between me and a friend to call it the “have you reached harbin yet” fic bc i just. could not reach harbin (my self-identified halfway point of the fic)

at least 30% of this fic is just me revelling in imagery, and that’s probably a conservative estimate. as you’ve probably guessed, i love imagery! the more strangely-fitting the better, regardless of whether it makes sense or not. (probably not a good thing to love imagery this hard but /shrug)

shengji is a popular card game that is too complicated for me to explain, just know my degree of love with it is similar to my degree of love for mahjong. aka: with all my heart, even though i suck at it.

zjl and ljy’s conversation in nanjing is one of the very few pieces that made it out from the first plan (i’d like to say first draft, but i edit as i go so my first draft is my second draft is my final draft...) everything else went through an enormous amount of me dithering on it. go ljy!

i will probably never stop loving chinese bathhouses. they are so extra. i love them so much. they also tend to be more crowded than i portrayed because i have never found a bathhouse with the changing area empty enough two people can have a shouting match there, but artistic liberties exist for a reason

having long hair in northeast china is a uniquely terrible experience. everything gets stuck in it. everything.

trying to figure out how old both of them were by the lunar and standard calendars is not an experience im keen to have again

the new year’s gala is an experience everyone needs at least once in their life, it’s like the most bizarre mix of some fabulous costumes that took all the budget and the shitty costumes left behind and some absolutely ridiculous song-and-dance routines and comedy sketches and ads and a pouring of nationalism over the entire thing and it’s just. an experience.

dazzling spring and spring enchantment - dazzling spring is 浅花迷人, spring enchantment is 浅花入迷. at least 100% of the people zjl and szp dungeoned with thought they were partners.

*shakes bblue* how could you make... such good characters.... bblue why...

#halcy writes #it only took 3 months to get these out and i still think im missing something #but that's better than the 2 years it took to get the fic out right????

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nofomoartworld · 8 years ago

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This Gorgeous Light Installation Replicates Waves Breaking on Dry Land

A number of elegant mathematical formulae try to demystify the movement of breaking waves, which wash ashore then recede back into the ocean. In the recent installation Ocean Wave, at this year's Kinetica Art Fair in London, Chinese new media artist Jiayu Liu visualized the data of this natural process by creating a real-time, light-based installation that replicated ocean waves hitting a shoreline. Liu is known for highly conceptual and evocative light installations, like her Avatar-esque magical forest and simulated icebergs in a tropical Chinese garden, and Ocean Wave is similarly entrancing as a thoughtful audiovisual work.

Liu's installation features multiple tracks outfitted with motorized, glowing blue squares that contain printed circuit boards. Using data captured from a camera's sensors over three to five seconds, then fed into software, Liu's light blocks moved along tracks according to the changing edge of the waves captured in China. Supplementing the data visualization was the real-time sound of waves recorded on site.

Normal exposure of Ocean Wave. All images courtesy the artist.

Liu tells Creators that her idea was simple: she wanted to use cameras to capture an "infographic" from the waves. The work is, as she says, part of her constant interest in not only representing the natural world in her artworks in introspective ways, but augmenting them with various types of technology.

To create Ocean Wave, Liu used openCV library and a custom algorithm to extract data from the edge of the wave in real-time. The electromechanical control system (written in C#) communicated with wave detection software through Websocket, while the 50 sliding motors—which ran along customized 100% carbon fiber tubes—were controlled by CAN software.

A long exposure of 'Ocean Wave'.

"To visualize more accurate shapes of the bubbles generated by the wave, the lighting needed to be constantly adjusted based on the real-time changes of the waves," Liu explains. "The lighting system was installed on the moving slider, and it couldn't be connected through cables [so] we used wireless communication through two antennas to cover the entire physical space."

As Liu explains, the system presents multiple gradients of blue in the light blocks, which are coordinated with the breaking waves' different positions. Liu says that this, combined with the use of multiple contexts, was meant to create a strong foundation of multidimensional thinking.

"The piece explores the intricacies and multiple relationships as well as the layers between humans and nature," Liu notes. "Additionally, [it explores] the complex perspective and notions held by people in which to observe nature."

A long exposure of 'Ocean Wave'.

"Due to the capability of the webcam (it cannot capture images in the dark) and time difference between China and the UK, it kept capturing and sending real-time images [between the two locations] during the daytime in China," she adds. "The data was stored in the hard drive of the installation for eight hours, waiting to be played after the exhibition opened every day."

Liu says that some members of the audience described Ocean Wave as creating the effect of real-time waves emerging from the gallery. Another viewer suggested Liu project actual footage of the beach and waves. Though Liu paired the installation with video projection during studio tests, she ultimately decided against this for the exhibition, preferring instead to leave some things to the imagination.

As expected, Liu is already at work on her next project. All she will say is that she is currently trying to create flowers blossoming from cliffs.

Click here to see more of Jiayu Liu's work.

Glowing Iceberg Simulations Take Over a Tropical Chinese Garden

A Swarm of Rainbow Butterflies Lights Up a Shanghai Train Station

This Installation Is Powered By The Wind From 40 Chinese Cities

See China's Air Pollution as Robotic Origami

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