Trydimensional 

Jan 2014 Projection｜Installation art

 

The “Trydimensional”：
 I meant to wrong it as a hint of “to try” to think tridimensionally. 

 

 

We're living in a 3D world, everything exists in a 3D space. Meanwhile, we often need to switch flexibly between 2D and 3D under different circumstances, using 3D logic to deal with things in the 2D world. We have rich experience in the 3D world, that's why we're not greatly troubled by the lack of depth information in 2D images. Rather, 2D images can bring convenience to our lives in the 3D world. Most of us tend to take for granted, but to me, it's a very interesting phenomenon. 

 

For example, a 2D user's book can provide us with correct guidance in setup and usage of a 3D product. Take the overview of a spiral stairs for instance, we know clearly that we cannot get to the last step immediately from the first step, because there's a space difference between them. Also, we might drive on an overpass bridge under the guidance of a flat map, but it turned out that some of the roads are not on the same level. We can get to the other road only at the joint of the two roads,etc. These are the daily examples for the lack of depth information.

 

In this work, I used this kind of analogical method to unfolded the Rubik’s cube which we all are familiar with into a flat map, to reproduce the interesting dimensionality-switching experience. In the hope of provoking everyone’s further thoughts about the switch logic between 2D and 3D through interacting.

 

 

在一個三維的世界里，我們每天衣食住行所感觸到的東西都是在三圍空間中真實存在的。但往往，我們卻需要在二維與三維空間靈活切換，即在二維中用三維的邏輯來對應思考。由於我們在三維世界有豐富的經驗，因此，平面圖像中深度信息的缺失並不能對我們的生活造成很大的障礙。反而能通過這種平面化的方式方便我們的生活。似乎，已經對此習以為常，而這對我來說是個有趣的現象。

 

比如，平面繪制的說明書可以成功指導我們在三圍的實物上完成安裝和使用；比如，螺旋樓梯的平面頂視圖中，我們清楚的知道不可以從第一節台階邁步到最後一節，因為在空間中它們存在落差。再比如，我們搜索到了立交橋的平面地圖，卻發現實際行駛過程中地圖上某一條路實際是在另一條路的下面一層，必須到兩條路的連接點才能互通。這些都是日常生活中缺失深度信息的例子。

 

在這個作品中，我將人們熟知的魔方用較陌生的平面化的方式展開，來呈現二維與三維間相互切換的有趣體驗。希望能通過一種類比的手法，在體驗的同時，引發每個人關於二維與三維切換邏輯的更深層次的思考。