Thinly Sliced (043)

Thinly Sliced is a still-life where the depth information is layered onto the scene. Is a perspective still recognizable when its depth is transposed into a different dimension?

Two sets of contours represent the same depth, either vertically or horizontally. A greyscale image of recognizable shapes — plants obscured by a bowl in the foreground — becomes a tangle of overlapping lines, where each form’s relative position is described with blue and yellow contours.

Technicals

The depth image was captured using a Kinect’s infrared array to measure distance from the camera. Depth is represented in grey scale values — closest is black, farthest is white.

On the web, an interactive version allows users to “cut” the image based on their mouse position, showing only one slice at a time.