Color Space
Gallery of pictures

July 23, 2001: Shade laid out with longer tubes
July 22, 2001: Bombarding the long tubes
June 16, 2001: Final critique in the Intro Neon class, Spring 2001, Crucible Art School
June 10, 2001: Setting up the shade for the first time
February 29, 2000: Concept sketches
February 28, 2000: The original ColorSpace Table


Shade laid out with longer tubes
July 23, 2001

Kiki laid out the pieces of the shade structure to see how the longer tubes
would fit in it.
The wires were just a *tad* too short!
Yuck!
And it doesn't look like any good way around that...



Photos by Kiki.

Here's the top portion laid out
all_laid_out.jpg
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See how little more I need?
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Another view
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Bombarding the long tubes
July 22, 2001

Kiki made the long 5' tubes for ColorSpace...
Um...now we'll have to bombard them...I hope they fit!

I should have taken more pictures of all we had to go through,
but I was so nervous and guarding the tubes like a watchdog that
I didn't have time for more than this one.
[In fact, Christian asked me to step back when I snapped this one!]



Photos by Kiki.
You can see this end compared to the far end...

See how long the tube was!
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Final critique in the Intro Neon class, Spring 2001, Crucible Art School
June 16, 2001

Here's some quick shots of the erected Color Space [first try.]
There was *clearly* not enough light -- both in brightness as well as
how far around the light wrapped...
I walked right out of the classroom and signed up for the next neon class!

Christian Schiess is a dear and allowed me to be an 11th student
in the beginning class...
And he *leeps* doing me many favors.
He's an angel!



Photos by Kiki.

Here's the whole thing setup!
ColorSpace_done.jpg
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From the inside, red
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Here's with a bit of light from the skylights
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Setting up the shade for the first time
June 10, 2001

Kiki wanted to just see what the shade was like to assemble.
She got a good feel for it! [It's *quite* unweildy to set up!]

The key is to set up the top and *put the cover over it*.
The cover holds all the pieces together while you assemble the legs.
[She was able to assemble it alone at the Crucible the next day...]



Photos by Kiki.

The top pieces in place and assembled
top_done.jpg
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Kiki still looks happy an not frustrated...
Kiki_and_top_done.jpg
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Kiki is getting frustrated as the top keeps falling apart
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You see, the pieces don't hold well together alone...
Kiki_tries_legs.jpg
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The proper way to assemble this shade!
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The cover holds the top together much better!
Kiki_tries_legs_again.jpg
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Kiki puts in the legs opposite the ones she already put in
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Scott checks out the design
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Full view of the completed shade
shade_done.jpg
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A view of the inside
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Concept sketches
February 29, 2000

Here's a sketch I did to represent the idea of what a room-sized ColorSpace
would be like.



Photos by Kiki.

I wish people could actually be entirely painted white :)
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The original ColorSpace Table
February 28, 2000

Here's some pictures of the original ColorSpace project I did in college:
The Table

You see how white objects in the Table can be any color in the visible
spectrum. [Well, not *exactly* since the red, green and blue lights are
not perfect colors... But they're close enough to make lots of colors!]



Photos by Kiki.
For the movie, you'll need QuickTime.
You can download it directly here.
If the .avi file doens't work for you, there's a .mov file too.

And there's the form of the Table itself
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Red, Green, Blue -- the additive primary colors
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Cyan, Magenta, Yellow -- the subtractive primary colors
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Blue to red, green to blue
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Red to green, blue to red
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The full spectrum on a round object -- an egg shape
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You can see the colors on the shapes
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A collection of shapes
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See the color effects on objects below
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The colors underneith are more subtle -- note the shadows
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Red, Green, Blue changes to Cyan, Magenta, Yellow
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