3D Cornell Box
A 3D spatial design that creates a virtual collage of personal memories using Unreal Engine.
Context
Virtual Modeling Project
Nov 2022 (1 week)
Virtual Modeling Project
Nov 2022 (1 week)
Concept
3D Spatial Design
Unreal Game Engine
3D Spatial Design
Unreal Game Engine
Tools
Unreal Engine
Blender
PolyCam 3D Scanning
Illustrator
Unreal Engine
Blender
PolyCam 3D Scanning
Illustrator
My Cornell Box | A Video Tour
Inspiration
The Cornell Box serves as a visual emblem in both arts and science.
In the arts, “Cornell Box” refers to Joseph Cornell’s assamblage of found objects with dream-like miniature tableaux juxtaposed in a tiny box. In the science, Cornell Box sets the evaluative environment for computer graphics that refined the rendering algorithms.
In this project, I want to create my own version of 3D Cornell Box in the light intersecting art and science, exploring percetion and light in a shared space of creative illumination.
The Cornell Box serves as a visual emblem in both arts and science.
In the arts, “Cornell Box” refers to Joseph Cornell’s assamblage of found objects with dream-like miniature tableaux juxtaposed in a tiny box. In the science, Cornell Box sets the evaluative environment for computer graphics that refined the rendering algorithms.
In this project, I want to create my own version of 3D Cornell Box in the light intersecting art and science, exploring percetion and light in a shared space of creative illumination.
Space
I wanted to recreate Cornell Box’s tactile reverie of memories and ideas in the digital dimension. I wanted to explore the relationship between objects and spaces through textures, sizes, composition, and their dynamic manifestation of my private dreams...
“Space is only a medium, environment and means, an instrument and intermediary...[It] never posseesses existence in itself but always refer to something else, to existential and simultaneously essential time, subjective and objective...” French philosopher Henri Lefebvre wrote in his exploration of the production of space.
In my 3D Cornell Box, I hope to embalm space with its own significance through meaningfull objects and their juxtaposition. Space is no longer the absence of tangible objects, it is the presence of space as its own form.
I wanted to recreate Cornell Box’s tactile reverie of memories and ideas in the digital dimension. I wanted to explore the relationship between objects and spaces through textures, sizes, composition, and their dynamic manifestation of my private dreams...
“Space is only a medium, environment and means, an instrument and intermediary...[It] never posseesses existence in itself but always refer to something else, to existential and simultaneously essential time, subjective and objective...” French philosopher Henri Lefebvre wrote in his exploration of the production of space.
In my 3D Cornell Box, I hope to embalm space with its own significance through meaningfull objects and their juxtaposition. Space is no longer the absence of tangible objects, it is the presence of space as its own form.
Objects
Objects on the right are elements from my Cornell Box - each relates to me in their uniquely significant way.
Objects on the right are elements from my Cornell Box - each relates to me in their uniquely significant way.
From top left to bottom right:
Red Studio by Henri Matisse, inverted;
Blob inspired by Miró’s Triptych Bleu I, II, III;
Light tube inspired by Dan Flavin;
Blob inspired by Miró’s The Red Sun;
Concrete casket inspired by Michael Heizer’s Negative Megalith #5;
Moon.
Memories in Space