I found this really cool game (competition maybe. we like calling it competition) that obtains a 3d object from looking at a body of text that describes the object.. Below is their description and deadline for submittals. The director Caro Doffay of this Chicago gallery is interested to see how industrial designers will intepret the new game text with software like Maya, Alias and Rhino. Deadline for this particular project is October 24th 2007 at 9pm. Bart Brejcha In October, 2007, Caro d’Offay Gallery will be converted into a platform for the live investigation of a specific text. Participants operating remotely from all over the globe (via the internet) will work to create a full spectrum of varying interpretations of this text. The Colorist Chess is an annual collaborative project at Caro d’Offay Gallery in Chicago. This year’s The Colorist Chess will examine the physical manifestation of a mystery object concealed in a box. A written description of the object reduces it to basic attributes. Participants are invited to take this text and translate the mystery object back into a physical form. The project thrives on the interpretative successes and failures the participants have in expressing their point of view. Interpretations will only be as true to the original as the describer's observation and the participants' relationship to the text. Intending to elicit the widest variety of interpretations as possible, The Colorist Chess continues to invite venues and artists to participate up to the day of the construction of the object. Then mailing in objects from their remote locations, artists from all over the world are able to participate in an exhibit alongside the scaled up version of the object at the main platform in Caro d’Offay Gallery. The last competition for example we got off the http://www.carodoffaygallery.com/ website. This is the original object that was hidden in the box. This is one of the interpretations. Artist Erin Cooper. This is another of the interpretations. Artist Danny Mansmith. more of the other images will be added this week. Text for the current mystery object that is currently hidden in the gallery. TEXTAPORTATION OBJECT #3 1. Fuzzy light gray flexible sheeting. Create 32 half-circles at 1 ¼” x 5/8” Pair them up. Join the edges of each pair at only the curved perimeters. Put these 16 objects aside and forget about them 2. Green flexible sheeting. Create four 2” collapsed tubes (not entirely collapsed, but close). Each tube has one open side that is just slightly thicker than the other side. The open side is 3”. The tube tapers up to 4”. Create a texture on the tubes: the texture should be lines that run from the narrow to the wide end. Put these aside and forget about them 3. Rigid material such as wood, cardboard, metal or hard plastic sheeting etc… Create 4 PLANES of the following dimensions; a. TWO rectangle planes @ 1 ¼” x 2” b. ONE rectangle plane @ 2”x4” c. ONE 5-sided polygon plane: 2 sides are parallel to each other. These sides are 2” long. They are 4” apart), the remaining sides of the polygon are 3”, 1 ¼” and 4”. Any protruding angle should point away from shape. 4. Join these planes together by their 2” sides to create a rigid structure. All joined angles will be perpendicular. 5. Green flexible material (sheeting). Create 16 collapsed tubes (not completely collapsed but close). Each tube is 6” long. Each tube tapers down to 1” at one end. The other end is 1 ½, but the taper only starts half way down the tube. Get those gray shapes out. Delicately fuse the open ends of gray caps to the narrow ends of collapsed green (#5) tubes so that the edges line up and close each other off. 6. Of the 16 tubes, cut 12 of them ¼” shorter (cutting off wider, open end) 7. Of the 12 tubes, cut 8 of those 1/2” shorter still (cutting off wider, open end) 8. Of the 8 tubes, cut 4 of those 1/4” shorter still (cutting off wider, open end). You will not need the cut offs. 9. Divide the 16 tubes into four groups, where no group has a tube of the same length. 10. Of each grouping of 4, place the tubes side by side with the longer tubes always in the center. As you place them side-by-side, attach the non-tapered sections together. The non-capped ends should lines up so that no tubes are protruding past the other. 11. Stack the 4 groupings on top of each other to where all the open ends are together and as close together and organized as possible. Attach these ends together. 12. Place this stack into the structure created at instruction #3. Polygon faced up and the point pointing towards capped off ends. 13. COLORING THE OBJECT: On shape #3 (5-sides polygon plane) Fill in 5 colors in this manner. a.On the 2”, 1” and 3” edges color edges black (about ¼”) b. Fill in the rest of the polygon plane (and other planes) with Lime green c. There are 5 different sizes of text, which you’ll paint on the object; the largest is one large orange digit. The second largest text size is a four-letter word in white; the third largest lettering is a line of text in black, containing a five-letter word and 3-digit number with symbol. The fourth largest lettering is a 10-letter word in white with two capital letters. The fifth smallest is a line of 3 words. The middle word is “that”. These words are in white 14. Those other tubes you forgot about…stack those into four neat layers and attach at wider side. Place the wider end of the taper against the rigid structure, opposite the thinner tubes.