This is the fall semester final presentation I gave for my thesis 'Tread Erosion'. The project takes aerial video of people walking and computationally translates that into a sculpture. The concept derives from the similarities between human patterns and braided river system. It is based on the question, what would happen if people had the ability to erode a space through movement, just as rivers erode canyons?
47. “…had a tendency to change with everyone who stepped onto it, as if it
formed a figure about him that, clearly, had nothing to do with the
square as he saw it…”.
benjamin
48. “…had a tendency to change with everyone who stepped onto it, as if it
formed a figure about him that, clearly, had nothing to do with the
square as he saw it…”.
benjamin
49. “…had a tendency to change with everyone who stepped onto it, as if it
formed a figure about him that, clearly, had nothing to do with the
square as he saw it…”.
benjamin
56. # of paths = (# of users) x (time for weather to erode path)
users visibility
dirk helbing
physicist / sociologist @
The Swiss Institute of Technology
