IC w8 Aim of the work

Aim of the work

What are you trying to say or express with your work? What is its ‘intent’ (this will change from week to week, but in the final Critical Review should explicitly refer to your Work in Progress Portfolio). Refer to your research here – does anyone else try to explore similar issues?

- Climate change

- Research clouds

- Depth, layers of clouds

- Research visual

- Awareness

This series of cloudshapes are all generated from images of clouds. Clouds are hugely important in regulating the temperature on earth. They play a role in absorbing harmful greenhouse gasses and reflecting sunlight. However, since the industrial revolution, clouds not only naturally occur but can be artificially manufactured. The Newest Cloud atlas from 2017 contains 10 “Genera” of clouds. Six of them can have a human-made origin.

Ever since the 1930s governments and industry have used scientific advancement to manipulate the weather. The Climate Crisis and human interference have major consequences for the clouds. Recently they seem to have been gathering to move more towards the poles and are therefore less effective in moderating the overall temperature of the globe. Scientists and investigating are testing ways to make and grow clouds themselves to help cooling down the earth; geo-engineering and cloudseeding. They want to investigate how the clouds are build, what is in the clouds, how big they are and how fast do they change.

I investigate the clouds visually with the help of photography because I became fascinated by them. One can understand a landscape, record it in topographic maps and go back indefinitely while the paths will hardly change, but the clouds are constantly changing and they remain at a distance. They are elusive. Clouds sometimes look very romantic, but we also associate them with precipitation, lightning, storm and hurricanes. However, we don’t realize how important they are to counter global warming on a daily basis. (Non-place?)

During my research I make a so-called bumpmap / hightmap based on the contrast in the photo that is converted into a 3D object. That 3D object is mixed with the original photo and can take all kinds of shapes. At one time the clouds get a mass and threaten to thunder down like stones, at other times the clouds resemble mountains or ice floes. There is also a series of clouds with contours like you see on maps and I am investigating what they look like making 3D surface maps.

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COLDEWEY, Devin. 2018. Clouds are complicated, and these fabulous 3D renderings of real weather data prove it. Techcrunch. Available at: https://consent.yahoo.com/collectConsent?sessionId=3_cc-session_b00bd4bd-6437-450d-a518-3c8489866484&lang=en-GB&inline=false [Accessed 14 March 2020]

HILDEBRANSON, Hugo Hildebrand. 1896. Cloudatlas.

HOWARD, Luke. 1865. Essay on the modifications of clouds. Available at: https://bit.ly/2VCuw67

NOS. 2017.Van bubbelwolk tot valstreepgat: Wolkenatlas telt 12 nieuwe soorten . Available at: https://nos.nl/artikel/2164593-van-bubbelwolk-tot-valstreepgat-wolkenatlas-telt-12-nieuwe-soorten.html [Accessed 17 March 2020]

WMO, 1997. Cloud Atlas. Available at: https://cloudatlas.wmo.int/home.html [Accessed 14 March 2020]

WMO, 1997. Cloud Atlas. Appendix 2 − Historical bibliography of cloud classification. Available at: https://cloudatlas.wmo.int/appendix-2-historical-bibliography-of-cloud-classification.html#A.2.3 [Accessed 14 March 2020]