Comparison
3D scanning vision and modern architecture
Architectural clarity becomes muddled, clumped, gloopy in 3D scans.
Machine perception slices time into discrete instants – anything (or anyone) not perfectly still essentially vanishes or smears out.
Positioned between image, model, and film (Matter and Form, 2018), a scanner’s viewpoint exposes discrepancies between a building’s intended design and its digital translation. Each missing fragment in a 3D scan highlights a critical gap in how technology “sees.” As Steyerl (2017) observes, “Shadows and blind spots are not absent from the picture… but are treated as equally important parts of the information.” These gaps become a new lens through which to view what might otherwise remain unseen.