Maker Faire 2013 3D Printing Stage: Reverse Abstraction

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Channel: Make: · 2014 · Howto & Style

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The Reverse Abstraction is a simple premise: that humans and computers perceive the world through different languages, and what is concrete for one is abstract for the other. Objects and shapes so familiar in human art can be neither perceived nor conceived by computers in their original form. Likewise, the codes that are so familiar to a computer are merely scattered symbols to human sensibility. Ashley Zelinskie attempts to bridge the gap by 3D printing traditional objects in dual forms: both as the classical object, and as the hexadecimal and binary codes that represent them.

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