Technology as Handmaiden to Generative Drawing 2/4

Symbolic ‘In Camera’ Objects

Speech Recorders

CCTV Capture Cameras

Part of the hybridized approach involved video ‘surveillance’ of the drawing process. To this end, symbolic review objects were developed. These were a bare minimum of notational symbols which, when used with the dense and ambiguous symbolism of the generative drawing, overlaid points of reference, which themselves could become focal points of meaning and possibly reinterpretation.

The two examples shown are a projection dice (indicating the orthographic projection used in the drawing) and a design process dice (indicating potential turning points, tangents and points of later interest in the design process).

These objects were created to enable the recording of discrete verbal activity during generative drawing and its storage ‘within’ the drawing (spatially). Practically, this appeared to act to ‘free working memory’ in order to develop ideas or generate new ones. The sound is recorded and the object is turned upside down to replay the sound ‘bite’.

The aim of producing a hybridized paper/electronic drawing interface was facilitated by the origination of three types of CCTV camera - the end of the pencil version; the magnetic aerial version and the lupe for magnifying and capturing paper drawings.

Hybrid Pen/Pencil

One of the frustrations with drawing on both paper and the drawing interface (the electronic tablet) lies in changing between pencil and stylus. These pens address this observation and allow quick switching between graphite and stylus. The removable collar which holds the stylus nib, dictates the digital feedback of the pen - simulating pencil

‘softness’. The angled ends of the pens also means that two pens can be connected together to produce more flexibility in terms of multiple pens with multiple settings.