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The image is carried in pigments and dyes.
Computational Reflective Imaging
A new reflective
image medium.
No screen. No pigment. No emitted light.
Discover the mediumThe distinction
The surface is permanent.
The image is alive.
A mirror has no color of its own. What it shows depends on what it faces.
Computational Reflective Imaging turns that ordinary fact into a medium: computed reflective geometry organizes available light into photographic images.
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Screen
The image is carried in electronically controlled light.
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Flective
The image is carried in computed reflective geometry.
An early study · ca. 2014
Eye
Bare metal, turned into an image by nothing but a slight reshaping of its surface.
No ink, no coating, no power. Each 1/8-inch facet is a true mirror, milled to a computed angle. In this early study the facets are coarse enough to see; at full resolution the reshaping becomes no more than a fine texture in the metal, and the image appears only from the place it was computed for. Under the low-color light of this photograph it reads in grey; given colored light, the same surface carries full color.
The work
Physical images,
resolved in real light.
Current development spans photographic works, architectural-scale installations, and public demonstration.
The work is grounded in issued U.S. patents.
Inquiries
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