Week 1 l 11th Nov
Method of Translating
Material
The article “NASA’s Hubble Finds Pluto’s Moons Tumbling in Absolute Chaos” as a material is from the official website of NASA. It is about Nix which is one of Pluto’s four moons. Following the article, it depicts that instead of steadily rotating through their orbits Nix wobbles unpredictably. And this movement comes from the shifting gravitational field generated by Pluto and Charon(another big moon of Pluto), which together have been compared to a barbell, for the way they roll through space together.
Original Text :
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-hubble-finds-pluto-s-moons-tumbling-in-absolute-chaos
“This is a set of computer modeling illustrations of Pluto’s moon Nix shows how the orientation of the moon changes unpredictably as it orbits the double planet Pluto-Charon.”
Since Pluto has low density, it also orbits not just rotates.
Experiment 1 : Transmitting the sentence in to pictures
As a starting point, I focused on the sentence “Hubble has provided a new view of Pluto and its moons revealing a cosmic dance with a chaotic rhythm” since the both of expressions ‘a cosmic dance’ and ‘ a chaotic rhythm’ are interesting.
For the first experiment, to do the transmitting, I translated the sentence into pictures which I could found on the first row when I search each word or expression on google.
Experiment 2-1 : Systematic Approach to the unpredictable movement of Nix
Then I moved on to focus on the systematic aspect of the reason why the Nix wobbles. Since it wobbles affected by Pluto and Charon, I recorded their axis as a line and arranged them to find any kind of rhythm. The first image is the one tracked and duplicated the axis of Nix on the original image to figure out the ryhtym. And the second image is the one that the picture of Nix is arraged the find out the rhythm.
However, this approach doesn’t seems to having a real systematic approach.
Experiment 2-2 : Mimiking with 3D scanning method
Throughout the previous experiment, I decided to focus on finding the deeper similarities in the systematic approach. Since the images of Nix are computer modelling illustrations, I wanted to translate them into another 3D image based on the system of the reason why Nix is wobbling. So this time, I started to capture real-life with the 3D capturing application.
The fact that Nix is influenced by both Pluto and Charon could be translated into something in the real life which is affected by its environment or something around it. As a beginning, I tried to capture the things especially unuseful, such as dust, used tissue, and loose-leaf. (This approach is based on the concept that Pluto was excluded from the solar system because of its density and materials it composed.)
This time, I chose a rock in my room as a material since it’s similar to Nix as a perspective of the asteroid. Then I did 3D capturing by grabbing the rock with my hand. Since this application is good at capturing big structures but not small objects, it starts to record the rock in an unexpected shape. This output corresponds with the basic notion that the object(Nix) shows unexpected outputs(wobbles) affected by what it is surrounded by(Pluto and Charon).
Eventually, what I did was translating the context from the cosmic to real life.
After capturing, I organized them in to a short gif video just as a original image form.
Feedback :
> The experiements I did is mimiking. My own perspective of this project that ‘Why I’m doing this’ seems needed.
> Abtract with the sentence. Find some kind of rhythm for example, and do the 3D scanning, then bring them back to the sentence to translate them.
> Nine unexpected scan of this rock would have some sort of it’s own system, such as randomizing code. There will be something sllows to unexpected.
> Can I make it move just like a time-laps video?
> It’s too close to original for now. How many videos are here? Make more density of this video. That might be more chaotic.
> Unexpected things has shapes, forms in mathematics. Layers unexpected.
> Record the transitions, observe what is recorded.
> Anything in nature is unexpectable. Find those points and make ‘Your Own Pluto’.