Assignment 1

Make A Physical Image Using Non Traditional Pixels

For this assignment I bent the rules a little bit and used the computer. My initial concept was making a mosaic with dichroic tiles. I wanted to base the image on color blind tests so I found an illustrator file which I edited so I could laser cut small dichroic tile circles. I ended up using the template as a mount and inlayed the tiles into the holes in a spiral pattern. It turned out to be quite difficult to make an exact spiral pattern by hand because of the way I set up the mount. The acrylic mount was attached to a wooden back with carpet tape and tiles were pushed into the holes. After everything was completed I was surprised to find out that the final piece acts as a pixelated mirror if you unfocus your eyes.