LAFFOLEY ARCHIVE: Digital Rendering Contest
CURRENT LISTING: Laffoley Design 3D Rendering Contest

Paul would like to attempt creating 3D & Zoomable versions, VR Objects or Fly-throughs of some of his Designs.

Laffoley mentioned he had never been able to find anyone who could render his works digitally and doubted if it was possible. I responded that he just didn't know the right people and there were some amazing 3D artists out there who would take this as a challenge. The winners will be chosen by Paul and featured as a section on this site, and maybe used in his lecture presentations. There would be no physical "prize" for winning the modeling contest, but your work would be featured here in a special section and referenced with your name + a link to your work. You will be fully credited if it is later displayed as part of a presentation, etc. Also this will be a good challenge to sharpen your rendering skills with some mind-blowing designs ... Paul has not found anyone yet who can do this, even though his art is basically pre-formatted schematics! But I assured him it was possible now, with the 7500 new & talented people we've met from the Myspace profile.

Note: You will need software capable of generating all types of: platonics and polytopes, pure math forms, minimal surfaces and for some advanced pieces you will need skill in rendering precisely measured interconnected machine parts programmed to follow physical laws of intertia, gravity, gyroscopic motion, etc..
Submission Guidelines:
Send files to
Paul Laffoley Archive Contact
  
If they are Larger than 10 Megabytes, Post them Online and Send a Private Link where I can download them as either: tiff, jpeg, anim-gif, swf, vrml, qtvr or mpeg video. (suggest other formats if you have ideas) By entering your art in this contest you are agreeing to unlimited (always credited to the artist) use by LaffoleyArchive.com of the works submitted, since the result is basically a collaboration between your computer rendering skills and Paul's design genius. Paul may incorporate some images or media into his lecture presentations, but your work will NOT be used in commercial printed publications without written consent of the artist.
Category 1: Math Objects - Simple & Complex Klein Surfaces
klein bottle - Laffoley 3D Render Contest

space machine is the cosmo phonon before the big bangNested & Wrapped Transparent Klein Bottle, from -
"The Cosmo-Phonon: Prior to the Big-Bang"
(at right: 21 x 21 in. - 2003)

Description: Nested Dual Klein Surface(?), semi-transparent, with 4 interior & outer loops and 4 tubes extending outward, which connect to another flattened kelin surface in the full painting.

Reference Files:
(sorry for the jpeg noise in these, resized from a small file)
a. Large image, cropped
b. Large image, dark contrast, cropped
c. Large image, context
c. Full painting

GOAL:
If you can do the outer-connected Klen surface then that's awesome, but the goal for this one is primarily a very good version of the cropped form at Left.
klein bottle - Laffoley 3D Render Contest recontruction of the entire universe as a singularityNested Multiple Transparent Klein Bottles, from-
"The Cosmolux: The Reconstruction of the Universe as a Singularity" (at right: 6 x 6 ft. - 1981)

Description: Nested Triple Klein Surface(?), semi-transparent,surrounded by awesome cosmic color-computer mandala..

Reference Files:
(sorry for the jpeg noise in these, resized from a small file)
a. Large image, cropped
b. Large image, dark contrast, cropped
c. Full context

GOAL:
The goal for this one is primarily a very good version of the cropped form at Left. If you can recreate the mandalic structure framed around it then you get mega extra-points.
   recontruction of the entire universe as a singularityKlein-Like Surface, from-
"The World Soul of Plotinus" (at right: 6 x 6 ft. - 2001)

Description: Klein-Like Minimal Surface(?),
Fractally Recursive in the Center.

Reference Files:
(sorry for the jpeg noise in these, resized from a small file)
a. Large image, cropped
b. Large image context
c. Full context

GOAL:
The goal for this one is primarily a very good version of the cropped form at Left. If you can recreate the mandalic structure framed around it then you get mega extra-points.
recontruction of the entire universe as a singularityNested Fractal Horned Spheres, from-
"The Mellonchron" (at right: 6 x 6 ft. - 1985)

Description: Nested Horned Spheres(?), Cross-Caps, encolsed in a Mandalic Structure and rounded borders..

Reference Files:
(sorry for the jpeg noise in these, resized from a small file)
a. Large image, cropped
b . Full context

GOAL:
The goal for this one is primarily a very good version of the cropped form at Left with the circular mandalic structure.
recontruction of the entire universe as a singularity Transparent Nested Klein Bottle, from-
"The Black White Hole" (at right: 6 x 6 ft. - 1976)

Description: Nested Klein Surface(?), semi-transparent, with many inner loops..

Reference Files:
(sorry for the jpeg noise in these, resized from a small file)
a. Large image, cropped
b. Large image

GOAL:
The goal for this one is a very good version of the cropped form at Left.
In the near Future ...
 Category 2: Full Machines - Difficult
   

Category 3: Complex Scenes - We Dare You!
   
 
Consider this to be more than a visual design contest ...

Eventually the most accurate ones could lay the foundation of templates
for 3D printing of flawless reproductions Paul's inventions in plastic, cramic or metal at any scale
 or to create and test real components of his mechanical inventions which were unbuildable until now!
A 3D-design contest or a start at planting the seeds for
making Paul Laffoley's inventions into working prototypes?
... perhaps even bringing the Time-Machine one step closer!

Upload Files and Send a link -or- Send Files Smaller than 10meg To:
Paul Laffoley Archive Contact
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