Earth Artifacts
What is an Earth Artifact? Artifact is a combination of two Latin words, arte, meaning “by skill” and factum which means “to make.” Usually when you use the word artifact, you are describing something crafted that was used for a particular purpose during a much earlier time. In easy terms it’s valuable man-made objects of the past.
Word Associations Earth Globe
Planet
World Sphere
Big Blue Marble
Orb
Universe
Sublunary World
Ruin
Vestige
Monument Rarity
Bygone
Terestrial Sphere
Heirloom
Antiquity
Relic
Artifacts
Mind Map HISTORY
famous people
relics
evolution science
typeface
animation where you auction out simple things in the future like...oil, wind, greenery, nature since it becomes earth artifacts from being rare in the future.
old religion
Egypt
EARTH ARTIFACTS
RANDOM no gray for escape, no gray to blame, its either black or white
anatomy of a record, inside schematics human nature psychology
how can you expect them (aliens) to accept us when we can’y accept ouselves
society government
MEDIA book animation
ethnicity
gender
the great unknown
comic book
futuristic feel
box of life- time capsule
things that could possibly become artifacts in the future -paper -nokia -DVD -radio -soap bar -PC
Symbols on golden record could be utilised to creculture
holograms
Voyeger Golden Record The Founder
The original idea, that the Pioneer spacecraft should carry a message from mankind, was first mentioned by Eric Burgess when he visited the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, during the Mariner 9 mission. He approached Carl Sagan, who had lectured about communication with extraterrestrial intelligences at a conference in Crimea. Sagan was enthusiastic about the idea of sending a message with the Pioneer spacecraft. NASA agreed to the plan and gave him three weeks to prepare a message. Together with Frank Drake he designed the plaque, and the artwork was prepared by Sagan’s then-wife Linda Salzman Sagan. Both plaques were manufactured at Precision Engravers, San Carlos, California. The first plaque was launched with Pioneer 10 on March 2, 1972, and the second followed with Pioneer 11 on April 5, 1973.
Pioneers 10 and 11, which preceded Voyager, both carried small metal plaques identifying their time and place of origin for the benefit of any other spacefarers that might find them in the distant future. With this example before them, NASA placed a more ambitious message aboard Voyager 1 and 2-a kind of time capsule, intended to communicate a story of our world to extraterrestrials. The Voyager message is carried by a phonograph record-a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth.
Voyager Golden Record The Symbols
These waveform representations of the picture signal recorded in the groove provide an explanation for how the images are to be constructed. Someone analyzing the signal on the record would be able to recognize the image portion by similar looking groups of waveforms, with each group preceded by the symmetrical waveform seen in the top left corner of this picture. Each of these groups would be further subdivided into 512 individual signals, the first three of which are shown here labeled in binary notation as 1, 10, and 11 (decimal 1, 2, and 3). Just below the waveform drawing is a conceptual drawing of what they represent, again labeled 1, 10, and 11. The conceptual drawing indicates that each of the three signals represents a “line” of the final image with each line being drawn in a staggered, non-overlapping fashion. All 512 signals taken together constitute a single image. This staggered line image is the same way television images are drawn by the electron gun inside the CRT, except in the case of modern TV the lines are arranged horizontally and interlacing is used. There is also a binary number of 101101001100000000000000 under signal 1 which converts to 11,845,632 in decimal. Multiplying this by the constant of 7.04024183647E-10 seconds yields 0.0083396 seconds. So it takes about 8 milliseconds to draw one line of an image. It might be a considerable jump for someone to look at this one portion of the record cover and interpret what the image waveforms are supposed to be, but the two images below it provide further reinforcement of the desired interpretation. This is a top-down view of the Voyager record showing the stylus cartridge in place to play the disc. The position of the cartridge implies the record groove is to be played from the outside in. The symbols around the periphery of the record are a binary representation of the time required for one revolution of the record where a binary 0 is represented by a dash and a binary 1 is represented by the same vertical symbol used with the hydrogen transition above. Since leading 0’s are meaningless in the binary numbering system, the number would be read off in a counter clockwise direction starting above the stylus cartridge. This also implies the record is supposed to spin clockwise relative to a stationary stylus, as that’s the way the illustration needs to move to read off the binary number. The number around the periphery is 1001100001100100000000000000000 00 which converts to 5,113,380,864 in decimal. Multiplying this by 7.04024183647E-10 seconds yields 3.5999 seconds, the length of time for one rotation of the record.
This picture of a circle is the first image recorded on the record. It is intended for calibration purposes to ensure the signal on the disc is being decoded properly, and the right ratio of horizontal to vertical height is used in picture reconstruction. For example, if someone decoded this picture and the circle instead looked like an oval that was wider than it was tall, they would probably guess that they need to draw the picture lines closer together.
Voyager Golden Record The Symbols
This drawing expands on the concepts presented in the waveform drawing by showing what a complete image would look like. There’s a binary number 1000000000 drawn vertically above the last line of the image. This converts to 512 in decimal and indicates that the image consists of 512 lines, which would concur with the 512 similar signals within each waveform as described above. There is also a binary number of 10000 at the left end of the picture that converts to decimal 16. The interpretation of this seems somewhat cryptic, but it means that there are 16 levels of gray within each line. In other words the image quality in terms of grayscale is about equal to a photocopy of a photograph. The image quality in terms of resolution would be somewhat less than a photocopy as it equals about 500 dots along each line of the image. Thus each image has about the same number of dots along each line as there are lines in the complete image. If you think in terms of pixels rather than lines, this ratio results in square pixels.
This is a side view of the record and stylus cartridge, with two large bars enclosing a binary number indicating the length of time required to play one side of the record. Doing the math again, we have 100001011000000000000000000000000000000000 0 which converts to 4,587,025,072,128 in decimal. Multiplying by 7.04024183647E-10 seconds yields 3229.377 seconds, or about 53.8 minutes to play one side.
This illustration on the lower right of the Voyager record cover could be considered the “Rosetta Stone” of the record, as it provides the key to interpreting the remaining cover illustrations. This illustrates the hyperfine transition of the hydrogen atom where it changes between its two lowest states. The time interval for this is a mathematical constant equal to 0.7 billionths of a second, or more precisely 7.04024183647E-10 seconds. The 1 between the two states indicates the length of the transition should be equal to a binary 1. The binary numbering system, with just two symbols, 0 and 1, is the simplest numbering system, and is more likely to be understood by other civilizations than our decimal system adopted simply because humans have 10 fingers. With hydrogen being the most abundant element in the galaxy, any advanced civilization likely to encounter the Voyager should be able to interpret the meaning of this diagram.
This picture has nothing to do with interpreting the disc contents, but rather is a pulsar map indicating the solar system from which the Voyager spacecraft originated. The cover of the Voyager record also contains an ultra-pure source of Uranium-238 to serve as a radioactive clock for determining the record’s age. This same pulsar map as well as hydrogen atom drawing were also included on the Pioneer 10 and 11 Plaques. Each pulsar has its own distinct and rapid pulsing radio frequency that is very slowly changing with absolute linearity. It’s likely that other civilizations of sufficient advancement will be familiar with these and their rates of change. The pulsar map shows fourteen pulsars and their directions from the sun along with the current frequency of the pulsar in binary notation. The horizontal line extending to the right with no binary number attached is a pointer from the sun to the center of the galaxy.
Researched Books
Ancient Artifacts
While the architectural style of the Museum was classical, the layout of the interior, with its symmetrical arrangement of the side rooms with respect to the vast central hall, resembles the plans of Egyptian Temples such as the one that can still be seen today at EDFU.
This magnificient Sphinx of Thutmose III (JE 15208 = CG 576) stands outside the musuem carved in pink granite. It measures 262 cm long and was discovered by Mariette in The Temple of Amun at Karnak. It dates to the reign of Thutmose III (1479 - 1425 BC).
Spoon for Costmetics in the form of a Knot of Isis JE 87485 Ivory Length 12.5 cm Ezbet El- Walda (Helwan) Predynastic Period (Late 4th Millennium BC)
Ancient Artifacts
Necklace JE 87499 Faience and Schist Length 29 cm Ezbet El- Walda (Helwan) Predynastic Period (Lat 4th Millenium BC)
Clappers with Heads of Foreigners JE 64771 A, B Ivory Length 20 cm Acquired First-Second Dynasty (2920-2649 BC)
Knife JE 69920 Flint Length 36.5 cm Width 9 cm Saqqara, Tomb of Hemaka W.B. Emery’s Excavations (1936) First Dynasty (2920-2770 BC) Reign of Den
Disc Decorated with Geometric Motifs JE 70162 Schist and Linestone Diameter 10 cm Saqqara, Tomb of Hemaka W.B. Emery’s Excavations (1936) First Dynasty (2920-2770 BC) Reign of Den
Ancient Artifacts
Label of Djer JS 70114 Ivory Width 9.5 cm Height 8.5 cm Thickness 0.4 cm Saqqara, Tomb of Hemaka W.B. Emery’s Excavations (1936) First Dynasty (2920-2770 BC)
Vase CG 14341 Porphyrite and Gold Height 14.5 cm Diameter 22 cm Hamrah Dom Second Dynasty (2770-2649 BC)
Ancient Artifacts Lower Fragment of the ‘Libyan Palette’ Schist Height 19 cm Width 22 cm Abydos Predynastic Preriod (C. 3000 BC)
Ancient Artifacts Gold-Handled Flint Knife Flint and Gold Leaf Length 30.6 cm Width 6 cm Gebelein, Aquired at Qena in 1900 Predynastic Period, Naqada II (3500-3100 BC)
Ancient Artifacts
Statuette of Anubis Bronze, Height 14.8 cm; Width 6.5 cm Provenance Unknown; Acquired with the Huber Collection Roman Period (2nd Century AD)
Ornamental Glass Vase Glass, Bronze, Gold; Height 13 cm; Acquired; Probable Provenance Fayum Roman Period (2nd-3rd Century AD)
Typography
THINKSTUDIO
InkProject
WELOVETYPOGRAPHY
Incredible Types
Typography
Type Worship
Typostrate
Typography
Typography
Typography
Typography
Typography
Typography
Typography
Typography
Typography
Typography
Typography
Color Research
Designers
GER ll Corporation, Philippines At the start, GER ii was like a young tiger cub. Small, yet swift and sharp, just like the people behind it- Nelson and Angie Viterbo. They opened shop in 1990.
Designers
Outside Directors Company Ltd, Japan Osamu Sato, who is a computer artist and a techno musician, founded Outside Directors Company (OSD) in 1988. Projects include advertising planning and production, graphic design, character design, CG, making video games and PC game titles, gallery planning and organizing, music, magazine planning and editing, and so on.
Designers
Octogram Design Pte Ltd, Singapore OCTOGRAM has been a pioneer in the creative and marketing service since 1985. Constantly driven by their goal to give the best marketing and design solutions that are concise and memorable.
Designers
Kan & Lau Design Consultants, Hong Kong Kan & Lau Design Consultants, known for its creativity and professionalism, is one of the leading graphic communications design consultancies in Hong Kong. With history dating back to 1976, the company has become internationally known due to its frequent exposure in renowned design publications and the numerous awards won in world-wide competitions.
Three Ideas
Idea No.1 Humans are said to be frail creatures who strive for attention and want nothing more to be noticed. This could lead to a complex emotion about being forgotten once passing away. My first idea is to create humans most insecure emotions of being forgotten and convey them using kinetic typography.
Idea No.2 Box of life, a time capsule that keeps a record of the natural resources we once had before they were devoured by society and artificial lifestyle finally dominated the earth.
Development to Idea No.1 The Words to my Kinetic
Don’t Forget Me I know, someday death will visit I know, someday this body of mine will turn to ashes And I know...that end comes for everyone It’s not death that scares me most...
Earth
Imagine Let’s imagine That industrialisation has led to our doom and natural resources almost diminished Let’s imagine... That there is only one tree One sip of water One rotten fruit A little care can go a long way. Don’t let the Earth become an artifact itself.
Welcome to Earth Home to billions of people We have a lot to offer Our brains are quite vast and can conjure up the oddest and spectacular of things. Unfortunately we are the threat to nature too Our lazy ways gain priority to wildlife.
Development to Idea No.1 The Words to my Kinetic The Font
Corbel
Arial
Calibri
Helvetica
Imagine
Imagine
Imagine
Imagine
Let’s imagine That industrialisation has led to our doom and natural resources almost diminished Let’s imagine... That there is only one tree One sip of water One rotten fruit
Let’s imagine That industrialisation has led to our doom and natural resources almost diminished Let’s imagine... That there is only one tree One sip of water One rotten fruit
Let’s imagine That industrialisation has led to our doom and natural resources almost diminished Let’s imagine... That there is only one tree One sip of water One rotten fruit
Let’s imagine That industrialisation has led to our doom and natural resources almost diminished Let’s imagine... That there is only one tree One sip of water One rotten fruit
A little care can go a long way.
A little care can go a long way.
A little care can go a long way.
A little care can go a long way.
Don’t let the Earth become an artifact itself.
Don’t let the Earth become an artifact itself.
Don’t let the Earth become an artifact itself.
Don’t let the Earth become an artifact itself.
Development to Idea No.1 Storyboard for the Kinetic Typography
Development to Idea No.2 I always wanted to create a hologram of my own and given I found myself fortunate to come across this video ‘Hot Toys Ironman 3 Holographic Hall of armor Display ACGHK 2013’ by deanknight333. Given the project I think this is the perfect opportunity to test and create my very own hologram.
Development to Idea No.2 The Objects
Having never used Cinema4D before, this task was quite a challenge but through patience and numerous tutorials I managed to model the objects displayed for my animation/hologram.
Development to Idea No.2 The First Animation Attempt
After creating the objects in cinema4d, I then created an animation, however, I soon came to learn that it will need a lot more polishing as the text is unsatisfactory and the overall animation is not as engaging as i had hoped it to be.
Development to Idea No.2 The Perfect Triangle
3-Sided
4-Sided
I needed to find a shape in which the hologram would be projected. From the numerous shapes I chose the triangle and then it was the task of seeing whether the three-sided or four-sided triangle would be a better choice. As seen the four-sided pyramid was the champion.
Development to Idea No.2 The Perfect Triangle The Measurements
5cm width, 4cm height
10cm width, 7cm height
After that was the measurements and after many tries I finally came across the perfect dimensions for the pyramid.
9cm width, 5cm height
9cm width, 9cm height
Development to Idea No.2 The Perfect Triangle
The Measurements For the box
My first box where the magic would happen, however, very flawed as the height of the box was way to high compared to the pyramid inside.
Development to Idea No.2 The Perfect Triangle
The Measurements For the box
top and bottom
top and bottom
Finally after many attempted I created the perfect measurements for the box.
left and right
left and right
back
Development to Idea No.2 The Perfect Triangle
12cm
12cm
The Measurements For the box
5.6cm 5.2cm
15cm
15cm
8.1cm
15cm
12cm
5.2cm
12cm
5.2cm
Development to Idea No.2 The Mock Up
The final mock-up for the hologram before the measurements get sent to the laser printing.
Development to Idea No.2 The laser fail
The laser printer decided to make a three-sided pyramid instead of four.
Development to Idea No.2 The laser success
The second time was a success with four equal sided pyramid made of clear perspex.
Development to Idea No.2 Final Holographic Animation
Development to Idea No.2 Making the Hologram
The Final Outcomes The Kinetic Typography
The Final Outcomes The Hologram