Entity | Materials and design references


the following is references on material usage, and popular design regarding entity

Materials and design
Furs and skinlike synthetic materials are a common material, new is the usage of translucent plastics.
Translucent
An early example of this is the translates body of the alien in the film E.T. As a way to amplify its lifeness, he has a redgloving light in his chest. A never design is the translucent bodies of the robots in th film I.Robot. Also the the toyrobots like idog and Nabaztag uses this feature. The Apple laptops uses translucent material in front of the sleeplight, the entity effect used.
Case: I, robot
Category: Materials, Cultural References
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%2C_Robot_%28film%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%2C_Robot
Case: E.T.
Category: Materials, Cultural References
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%2C_Robot_%28film%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%2C_Robot
White shells, black joints
It seem that the stormtroopers in Star Wars (1978) marked a design shift for robot design (although they are humans not robots..)
Many robot designs in films and real use this color-scheme. With The Hitchhikers Guide Marvin as the only one using champagne white…
Case: Robosapien, Imperial Stormtrooper (Star Wars), Chris Cunningham, All is full of love, Marvin, the depressed robot.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_the_Paranoid_Android
http://unit.bjork.com/specials/gh/SUB-01/
Metallic
The mother of all science fiction androids, The golden gyneoid of Fritz Langs Metropolis. Earlier represented by tales of bronze statues coming to life.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynoid)
Case: Robotic Gynoid
Category: Materials, Cultural reference
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"Meanwhile his father Fredersen learns of the existence of the robotic gynoid built by the scientist Rotwang and orders Rotwang to give the robot Maria's appearance"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_%28movie%29
Gyneoid, C-3P0
Furs
All teddy-bears have furs, The teddy-bear and dolls are the traditional entity objects.
Case: Furby
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"A Furby is an electronic toy made by Tiger Electronics which went through a brief period of being a "must-have" toy following its launch in the holiday season of 1998. The main reason that many people liked them was their apparent "intelligence" and learning ability as they developed their language skills. It was thought, falsely, that they repeated words said around them (the actual function was the ability to have the furby say certain pre-programmed words or phrases more often by petting it whenever it said these words)"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furby
Patterns
Cyborgs, the fusion of circuit patterns and organics,
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Abstract
The more abstract or simple the shape of entity is, the more we are able to project a great entity into it. There is few clues and recognizable aspects that limits our impression of its capabilities. Also se the HAL-9000 reference
Case: Hooloovo
Category: Cultural References, Abstracts
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"A Hooloovoo is a superintelligent shade of the color blue." Little is known of them, except that one participated in the construction of the starship Heart of Gold. At the launching ceremony it was temporarily refracted into a free-standing prism. This is probably analogous to the multicolored lab coats worn by the rest of the team."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Races_and_Species_in_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Hooloovoo
Case: The Monolith, 2001 a Space Odessy
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Case: The inkal, Moebius
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Case: Presence, interactive installation AHO 2006
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A tree-shaped graphic that "grows" feeding on real physical presence by students and staff at AHO, impresses the entity of presence on its own.
http://www.aho.no/presence/
Art history
Case: Jugend Design
Category: Entity design, References.
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More Links:
http://johnpowers.us/sight/
http://www.dagbladet.no/dinside/2006/11/03/481785.html

Posted: Tor. - November 30, 2006 at 08:45 PM          

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