Authors
Dennis Del Favero, Yang Song, Khalid Moinuddin, Charles Green, Jason Sharples, Alex Ong, Navin Brohier
Publication date
2023/12/12
Book
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Art Gallery
Pages
1-2
Description
Penumbra2.0 is an AI immersive art installation exploring the visualisation of an unpredictable extreme wildfire scenario using a pyro-aesthetic, an aesthetic based on the perceptual qualities of this fire type. Currently seen in Canada, these wildfires are extreme in their speed and scale. They are unpredictable as their behaviour moves across terrains in unforeseen ways, unlike the linear and predictable paths of bushfires. Using geo-located data, Penumbra2.0 recreates an actual wildfire in the Vosges mountains, France, 2020. It has been collaboratively developed by art, AI and fire researchers.
Penumbra2.0 forms part of a larger research program entitled iFire. iFire consists of an artistic and scientific project series, the Penumbra series comprising the artistic and Umbra the scientific. Both use the same database of atmospheres, flora, pyro-histories and topographies. Penumbra explores the palpable and …
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