“Color depth” papers · AI for Research

Color Depth

Catie Newell, Ryan Craney · SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología · 2022

Color Depth is a material-based research project investigating the optical and structural properties of thick glass. The research is driven by an interest in optical gradients of transparency and color, which are designed through a manipulation of geometric form and composition. These qualities can be attributed to the interrelated optical effects created through reflection, refraction, and volume color, in direct correlation to the geometry of individual glass pieces and overall glass assemblies. An example of this can be seen in viewing a monolithic volume of glass that would appear to change color by varying the depths of its form. This concept was originally discussed in Josef Albers’ Interaction of Colour, and applied more specifically to glass in recent essays by Heike Brachlow. Color Depth utilizes this phenomenon of perceived color variation to construct and analyze architectural glass forms in both physical prototypes and design speculation. To evaluate architectural design opportunities, a multi-objective optimization workflow simulates and evaluates varying glass colors, forms, and compositions to achieve a desired visual effect. Additionally, the digital optimization process reveals patterns and visual effects that further the understanding of optical gradients when applied in an architectural context with various seasonal and diurnal environments. Keying into the geometry of glass– to deploy changes in color, darkness, or translucency—Color Depth ties together the physical attributes of a material system with its surrounding light.

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Depth of Color

Sunhyung Cho · 2017

This design transposes verbal descriptions to tactile ones to extend the aesthetic color ranges of people living with vision impairments. Tactile expression of color is a new approach in clothing design that expresses the color without exploiting visual elements. To express the depth of color, the designer employed a laser cutting technique to communicate changes in color hues by creating cutouts from a fabric overlay that has a strong tactile texture to reveal a hand-hand painted colorful fabric underneath. The designer laser-cut the main textile of the first layer with ellipses of various sizes. The size of the ellipse corresponds to the size of the shape where lighter shades of blue are represented by smaller circles and darker shades are represented by more elongated ellipses. This results in a strong aesthetic effect where the garment represents the deep and lighter colors by the variation of frequency or size of the circles.

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Depth of Color

Cho, Sunhyung · Iowa State University Digital Repository (Iowa State University) · 2017

This design transposes verbal descriptions to tactile ones to extend the aesthetic color ranges of people living with vision impairments. Tactile expression of color is a new approach in clothing design that expresses the color without exploiting visual elements. To express the depth of color, the designer employed a laser cutting technique to communicate changes in color hues by creating cutouts from a fabric overlay that has a strong tactile texture to reveal a hand-hand painted colorful fabric underneath. The designer laser-cut the main textile of the first layer with ellipses of various sizes. The size of the ellipse corresponds to the size of the shape where lighter shades of blue are represented by smaller circles and darker shades are represented by more elongated ellipses. This results in a strong aesthetic effect where the garment represents the deep and lighter colors by the variation of frequency or size of the circles.

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