Performer: | Anamorphic |
Title: | The Engine House Sessions |
Released: | 2001 |
Style: | Indie Rock, Trip Hop |
Category: | Electronic / Rock |
Rating: | 4.7 ✦ |
Other format: | AAC AA MMF AHX MP1 DMF ADX |
1 | Slow SongBacking Vocals – Ulrica |
3:47 |
2 | The Girl In The Suitcase | 4:49 |
3 | In The Ditch | 5:01 |
4 | Beyond Our Times | 6:16 |
Booklet: All tracks recorded at The Engine House, Summer 2001. Tracks 1, 2 and 4 mixed at Miloco Studios. Track 3 mixed at Gravity Shack Studios. Mastered at The Exchange. Distribution: 3MV/Vital.
Sessions was a compilation album by the Beatles planned for release by EMI in 1984 but never issued due to objections by the surviving Beatles. The album consisted of thirteen finished but unreleased Beatles songs. A planned single containing two of the tracks from Sessions – "Leave My Kitten Alone", backed with an alternative version of "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" – was also left unissued. The idea was resurrected in 1995 as The Beatles Anthology.
I wanted to have anamorphic bloom for quite a long time now and I finally found a way to do it natively, without cheating with particles. It seems that the engine already support it since a few versions, but I didn't find any documentation for it. I simply discovered it by looking in the source code this week. However the default effect wasn't enough for me so I went further and tweaked the engine source code to enhance the effect. I only tested it with the Unreal Engine . 5, I did not yet tested the . 6 version and the new Convolution Bloom. However the advantage of my modification is that I don't change performances (unless I'm mistaken). I would love to hear some feedback from a Rendering dev about it.
His anamorphic sculptures rely on scans of objects (hands, faces, frogs) that are then distorted digitally and fabricated, but when placed in front of a cylindrical mirror the projected reflection reveals the original object. Still, other works deal with pixelated or sliced human forms that are only viewable from a single perspective. A scientist at heart, Hurwitz explained to me that his artwork is his way of expressing calculations visually, and also allows him to experiment with cutting-edge manufacturing and fabrication technologies. For the anamorphic pieces its an algorithmic thing, distorting the original sculptures in 3D space using 2πr or πr3 (cubed). Much of it is mathematical, relying on processing power. There is also a lot of hand manipulation to make it all work properly too as spacial transformation have a subtle sweet spot which can only be found by eye.