When the project began, Gardiner returned to the Isle of Purbeck to draw and paint the landscape on location and to experience it anew. "Creating a space that's not new for me but new for somebody else, I needed to imagine it like a building," he explains. "When you enter this building for the first time, where would you like to go?" Wireframe Model

Gardiner chose his favorite "island rooms" and depicted them in traditional paintings that would form the basis of his work. Then, turning to the computer, he built the electronic equivalent of "wire frameworks" -- the 3-D scaffolding around which each location would "fit."
Texture Wrap

Once he had rendered each three-dimensional space, he used the computer to "texture-wrap" them with his art. Electronic tools enabled Gardiner to take the traditional drawings, wrap them around the framework, and then change such characteristics as season or time of day, as evoked by ambient light.

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