For the Quartz Composer project, I created a non-interactive visualization. The visualization consists of a cube with inverted faces, each
of which has a different representation of an eye on it. The cube rotates along each axis at a different rate and the dimensions of the cube
expand and contract at differing rates. This cube is displayed against a backdrop of eyes expanding outwards with a static black-white-black
gradient background. The fundamental idea behind the piece is that reality is interpreted as opposed to being static. As an example, if somebody
were to go to a particularly impressive concert from which he developed an appreciation for a certain musical artist, he would then
be very disapointed when trying to share this with other people as they would each be hearing very different songs. The person who went
to the concert would bring into their interpretation of that song a whole set of meanings that the other person would be without. This sort
of thinking can be further applied to moods and dispositions of individual people and the question could be asked: do two people ever see
the same thing? While the differences might seem trivial to some people, it is worthwhile to consider just about any artistic piece that has
received a great deal of critiques and look at the range of opposing opinions people have. Still, some may argue that reality exists solely
as it exists and that it is we who interpret and gather different things from it as we see fit. But to define anything absolutely as such would
require us to define it in terms unintelligible to any human which is hardly satisfactory.
The Quartz Composer file can be downloaded here.
