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Author Matthews, Linda

Title Design Strategies for Reimagining the City The Disruptive Image
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (191 p.)
Series Routledge Research in Architecture Ser
Routledge Research in Architecture Ser
Contents Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgement -- Part I: Constructed Fields of Vision -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1. The problem of the image of the city: From perspectival to digital space -- Disruptive techniques of spatial representation -- Singular or narrative spaces of representation -- The 'symbolic' intent of linear perspective geometry -- The perspectival city -- Photography as the bearer of truth -- Fragmentary spaces of representation -- Anamorphosis and the reversal of logic
The Vertovian image: Issues of critique, representation and form-making -- Filmic space/architectural space -- Vertov in the digital image: Envisioning the contemporary city -- The qualitative image and affective space -- Notes -- 2. The pixel's visual territory -- From analogue to digital -- Unique modes of digital assembly -- The discontinuous digital line -- Qualitative content is connected data -- The predictability of pixel relationships -- Digital geometry's intersection with optical science -- Perceptual behaviours -- The digital mediation of colour, brightness and shape
Technological disruption -- Digital colour: Unique translations of digital technology -- Contrast perception, luminosity and the contextual advantages of pixel geometry -- Form perception and the inherent imperatives of pixel geometry -- Representation and the pixel's 'symbolic form' -- Many authors -- Notes -- 3. Seeing through digital image-making technology -- Colour's transformation -- Colour as form -- The digital manipulation of colour -- Proprietary colour -- Colour by guesswork -- New digital opportunities -- Non-proprietary colour and open-source code -- Exploiting CFAs
The digital perception of brightness -- Shifting the register: The pictorial application of brightness -- Eliminating the uncontrollable: Brightness as an artefact -- Fraunhofer diffraction as a productive aberration -- Digital image legibility: Shape -- The human perception of shape -- The human visual system and scan path theory -- Saliency and the advantages of webcam technology -- The productive inclusion of digital artefacts -- Notes -- 4. The new agency of distributed digital networks -- Digital anamorphosis and the virtual picture plane -- Pre-digital anamorphic techniques
The affective anamorphic network -- Digital anamorphic techniques -- The expanded image -- The distributed network and the multiplication of viewpoints -- An expanded temporal frame -- Responding to the digital city -- Notes -- Part II: New techniques of intervention and disruption -- 5. Generative techniques -- New modes of practice -- The qualitative image -- The space within the image -- The anamorphic potential of digital technology -- The dynamic image -- The image as a 3D volume -- The synthesised landscape -- Transdisciplinary modes of activating digital colour and luminance (brightness)
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Colour and luminance (brightness) profiles as a generative procedure
Subject Architecture and technology.
Architectural design -- Data processing.
Architectural design -- Data processing
Architecture and technology
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000602166
1000602168