Inside Insides – Unlocking encoded spatio-temporal morphologies
Thursday, 19 August 2010
Magnetic Resonance Imaging of fruits and vegetables
InsideInsides offers a collection of animations made from sequences of Magnetic Resonance Imaging of fruits and vegetables. Taking a slice at a time in topological order, and then animating the slices in sequence generates intriguing results. The vegetal forms are translated into quasi-morphological figures and biological entities. These classic archetypes, encoded spatio-temporally into the layers of the foods, act as natural visualisations of morphological development and growth.
Sections of a cucumber appear as microscopic bacterial entities with short-lifespans – fading in and out of existence, using a filtering mechanism, as if it were processing food.
The symmetry breaking movements of the watermelon animation, on the other hand, yield the kinds of geometric transformations we might find in an analogue video feedback experiment.
