Software that animates the 3d coordinates of the point clouds

In this work 500,000 points in 3 dimensional coordinate animated themselves while drawing the different living beings that compose the series. 

This work is part of a series of works that proposes a look at the Amazon forest through a series of 3D scans made with photogrammetry. Photogrammetry is a process in which through a series of photographs one gets a coordinate system of points in three coordinates that represent the position, dimensions, and color of a physical object. The data from the scans are processed to generate a series of two-dimensional fin art prints, pen plotter drawings, and video works that focus on three key actors in the forest; trees that sustain life, flowers that are key for reproduction, and fungi that connect every living being in the ecosystem.

A moving pointillism of the forest

Photogrammetry rendered with CGI graphics
 


In this párticular case, the 3D models are rendered into a video or moving image file, this piece involves time, and both lighting and the camera positions are animated. These videos relate directly to the other 2d images that together make the series.


This work is part of a series of works that proposes a look at the Amazon forest through a series of 3D scans made with photogrammetry. Photogrammetry is a process in which through a series of photographs one gets a coordinate system of points in three coordinates that represent the position, dimensions, and color of a physical object. The data from the scans are processed to generate a series of two-dimensional fin art prints, pen plotter drawings, and video works that focus on three key actors in the forest; trees that sustain life, flowers that are key for reproduction, and fungi that connect every living being in the ecosystem.

A CGI passtrough of the amazon

20th of June 2021
Remate de Males, Atalaia do Norte - State of Amazonas, Brasil
Photogrammetry 
11338 x 9212 pixels

This work is part of a series of works that proposes a look at the Amazon forest through a series of 3D scans made with photogrammetry. Photogrammetry is a process in which through a series of photographs one gets a coordinate system of points in three coordinates that represent the position, dimensions, and color of a physical object. The data from the scans are processed to generate a series of two-dimensional fin art prints, pen plotter drawings, and video works that focus on three key actors in the forest; trees that sustain life, flowers that are key for reproduction, and fungi that connect every living being in the ecosystem. 

A view of the forest from the river #003

23th of June 2021
Remate de Males, Atalaia do Norte - State of Amazonas, Brasil
Photogrammetry
7086 x 9921 pixels

Flowers act as objects of desire and beauty to attract insects, they use color, smell, and divine proportions to keep the forest alive. Heliconias in South America are by no means difficult to find, you can see them in every garden of a tropical house, but this one was alone in the wild surviving beside the river.

This work is part of a series of works that proposes a look at the Amazon forest through a series of 3D scans made with photogrammetry. Photogrammetry is a process in which through a series of photographs one gets a coordinate system of points in three coordinates that represent the position, dimensions, and color of a physical object. The data from the scans are processed to generate a series of two-dimensional fin art prints, pen plotter drawings, and video works that focus on three key actors in the forest; trees that sustain life, flowers that are key for reproduction, and fungi that connect every living being in the ecosystem. 


A lonely heliconia also named " bird from paradise".

19th of June 2021
Remate de Males, Atalaia do Norte - State of Amazonas, Brasil
Photogrammetry
14173 x 14173 pixels


Fungi are known for being in charge of decomposing dead elements in the forest. Similarly when our mind thinks about these organisms we see life differently, we can ask ourselves new questions that lead us to new answers. 

This work is part of a series of works that proposes a look at the Amazon forest through a series of 3D scans made with photogrammetry. Photogrammetry is a process in which through a series of photographs one gets a coordinate system of points in three coordinates that represent the position, dimensions, and color of a physical object. The data from the scans are processed to generate a series of two-dimensional fin art prints, pen plotter drawings, and video works that focus on three key actors in the forest; trees that sustain life, flowers that are key for reproduction, and fungi that connect every living being in the ecosystem. 

A fungi surrounding a tree full of moss

25th of June 2021
Remate de Males, Atalaia do Norte - State of Amazonas, Brasil
Photogrammetry
5953 x 8408 pixels


Zingibers commonly known as ginger are one of the most known medicinal plants in the world, they have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties among others. This Ginger’s flower seems to me like a prehistoric form of life that teaches us how the solutions to many problems are within nature.

This work is part of a series of works that proposes a look at the Amazon forest through a series of 3D scans made with photogrammetry. Photogrammetry is a process in which through a series of photographs one gets a coordinate system of points in three coordinates that represent the position, dimensions, and color of a physical object. The data from the scans are processed to generate a series of two-dimensional fin art prints, pen plotter drawings, and video works that focus on three key actors in the forest; trees that sustain life, flowers that are key for reproduction, and fungi that connect every living being in the ecosystem. 

A Zingiber´s  flower. 

22nd of June 2021
Remate de Males, Atalaia do Norte - State of Amazonas, Brasil
photogrammetry
7087 x 9921


Flowers in the rainforest act as landing pads for hungry insects that are eager to taste their nectar, then these flying creatures take pollen to other flowers to fertilize them. It is a multi-species miracle that makes life in the forest possible.  

This work is part of a series of works that proposes a look at the Amazon forest through a series of 3D scans made with photogrammetry. Photogrammetry is a process in which through a series of photographs one gets a coordinate system of points in three coordinates that represent the position, dimensions, and color of a physical object. The data from the scans are processed to generate a series of two-dimensional fin art prints, pen plotter drawings, and video works that focus on three key actors in the forest; trees that sustain life, flowers that are key for reproduction, and fungi that connect every living being in the ecosystem. 



A flower commonly known as burning cigar.

22th of June 2021
Remate de Males, Atalaia do Norte - State of Amazonas, Brasil
Photogrammetry
9921 x 9921 pixels

Traveling on the boats and taking pictures to create the 3d scan of the river line worked really well. These scans are made from a bunch of pictures taken from different angles and in this case they were taken consecutively following the path the boat was taking. For me, it relates the process of 3d scanning to the act and needs for human transportation.

This work is part of a series of works that proposes a look at the Amazon forest through a series of 3D scans made with photogrammetry. Photogrammetry is a process in which through a series of photographs one gets a coordinate system of points in three coordinates that represent the position, dimensions, and color of a physical object. The data from the scans are processed to generate a series of two-dimensional fin art prints, pen plotter drawings, and video works that focus on three key actors in the forest; trees that sustain life, flowers that are key for reproduction, and fungi that connect every living being in the ecosystem. 

A view of the forest from the river #002

23th of June 2021
Remate de Males, Atalaia do Norte - State of Amazonas, Brasil
Photogrammetry
17007 x 7086 pixels

Traveling on the boats and taking pictures to create the 3d scan of the river line worked really well. These scans are made from a bunch of pictures taken from different angles and in this case they were taken consecutively following the path the boat was taking. For me, it relates the process of 3d scanning to the act and needs for transportation. 

This work is part of a series of works that proposes a look at the Amazon forest through a series of 3D scans made with photogrammetry. Photogrammetry is a process in which through a series of photographs one gets a coordinate system of points in three coordinates that represent the position, dimensions, and color of a physical object. The data from the scans are processed to generate a series of two-dimensional fin art prints, pen plotter drawings, and video works that focus on three key actors in the forest; trees that sustain life, flowers that are key for reproduction, and fungi that connect every living being in the ecosystem.


A view of the forest from the river # 001

20th of June 2021
Remate de Males, Atalaia do Norte - State of Amazonas, Brasil
Photogrammetry
11618 x 17149

Ceiba trees are like old wise grandparents that are surveilling the rest of the forest. This one which might be around 500 years old is supposed to be the only one left in the Palmari region. It stands up because the local community stood up against some woodworkers that wanted to bring it down. 

This work is part of a series of works that proposes a look at the Amazon forest through a series of 3D scans made with photogrammetry. Photogrammetry is a process in which through a series of photographs one gets a coordinate system of points in three coordinates that represent the position, dimensions, and color of a physical object. The data from the scans are processed to generate a series of two-dimensional fin art prints, pen plotter drawings, and video works that focus on three key actors in the forest; trees that sustain life, flowers that are key for reproduction, and fungi that connect every living being in the ecosystem. 

A Ceiba tree besides the Yavari river.

8th of January 2021
Remate de Males, Atalaia do Norte - State of Amazonas, Brasil
Photogrammetry
8362 x 11905 pixels

Fungi are one of the most unknown living beings on the planet, and the more we try to understand them the more complex they appear to be. But one thing is clear when we think about fungi and their relation to the environment; all living beans are connected. Even in some cases, the boundaries of the species start to blur when we think of lichens or even our bodies, which more than an individual we work as an ecosystem.

This work is part of a series of works that proposes a look at the Amazon forest through a series of 3D scans made with photogrammetry. Photogrammetry is a process in which through a series of photographs one gets a coordinate system of points in three coordinates that represent the position, dimensions, and color of a physical object. The data from the scans are processed to generate a series of two-dimensional fin art prints, pen plotter drawings, and video works that focus on three key actors in the forest; trees that sustain life, flowers that are key for reproduction, and fungi that connect every living being in the ecosystem.


A fungi with bubbly forms over a dead trunk. 

There Where the Landscape Becomes Water / Alli Donde el Paisaje se Hace Agua

A collaboration with Juan David Figueroa @finguerboard

The cold, the fatigue, the bright sun or the freezing rain that you feel all over the body. The mist that clears the road, “ frailejones” , the lagoon, the waterfalls, the forests and the mountains. “Paramos” are elevated rock formations located in the tropics of our planet, a place ideal for the genesis of life. A mixture of sun, water and minerals that keep all the inhabitants of Bogotá, Colombia standing and drinking one of the world's purest water.

"There where the Landscape Becomes Water", is a project that proposes a look at the “Páramo de Chingaza” through a technique that interprets and translates the landscape, generating a dialogue between the binary and the organic: it exposes a contemporary interpretation of nature. These measurements with light show the most detailed forms of the stones, trace the geography of the mountain and are lost before the elusive bodies of water.

The project seeks to expand the properties of photography: deepen the study of imperceptible shapes, textures and colors; obtaining a three-dimensional, almost cartographic representation of the ecosystem. These works constitute a different approach to the representation of the natural environments that surround us.


Where the Landscape Becomes Water

From the series " Puntos en la Nube" or "Points in the Clouds"

A collaboration with Juan David Figueroa @finguerboard

There are tons of images of mountains, In fact one would come to think that we have seen enough stone walls.

Points in the cloud, however, suggests that, beyond the mountain of engravings, paintings and photos of mountains, there would still be things that we still have to see, to think. The "Cerro del Tablazo", in the savannah of Bogotá, Colombia , is not just a  biogeographic border where clouds come to form from the waters that rise from the Magdalena river valley, is a territory beyond our vision, a nebulous space for thought.
In part, the word game offered by the title of the exhibition, in relation to "nubes de puntos" or point clouds, is the direct invitation to think about the shapes in which we conceive a landscape in times of enormous flows of information and computer graphics.

Text by Nicolas Vizcaino Sanchez 

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