This is another piece that resulted from my MAD residency. It’s the same 3d file in the piece below, a 3d point cloud file that has been quantized — ie sliced into horizontal layers — and then output as svg files. I printed those files from Inkscape onto layers of acetate which were then framed in this lightbox.

Displayed in this way, the image is flattened, but you get a hint of its 3d origins in the varying opacity in the layer stack, and the accumulation of dark points around the edges.

The original 3d data was kindly shared by Steve Seitz, Noah Snavely and others at the University of Washington, and was part of the Building Rome in a Day project.