Digital interiors


My work consists of virtual objects that are entirely generated by computer, without the use of any photographic images whatsoever. They are brought together to make an image—a synthetic image in three-dimensional space—created with, and calculated by, the computer. Every single object is a system of geometric forms. Points and lines are arranged in a wire-frame model to create planes and solids. To make the forms look like objects, their surfaces have to be of distinct materials, chosen on the basis of qualities such as transparency, color, reflectivity, and absorption of light.

Bringing these objects together into a relationship inside a room—also built from the smallest particles: points—produces an image that still needs a simulated light source, a ray of light, to bring out the qualities of the materials of the objects it comes into contact with…




Martin Dorbaum