Manfred Mohr’s P-197 Cubic Limit II
2016
Manfred Mohrs P-197 Cubic Limit II (1979) is the counterpart of P-197 / K Cubic Limit II (1977). Their difference is that the 1979 work (black; fig. 3) is the negative of the 1977 work (fig. 1). Both are based on the same principle, that of cube manipulation, which Mohr used in the Cubic Limit I and II series.
The goal of this project was to analyze and reconstruct the P-197 Cubic Limit II with Processing, in order to achieve a new way of digital access and work mediation in a museological context.
Fig. 1. P-197/K Cubic Limit II, 1977
Work analysis
In both works, P-197 / K Cubic Limit II (1977) and P-197 Cubic Limit II (1979), a cube is divided by its center into two half cubes, which are rotated independently of each other. An important component of the composition is the three-dimensional representation of the original cube in frontal view, as defined by a two-dimensional "square window", which remains invisible. Graphically, the edges of the half cubes are accentuated, as long as they are located within the square (see fig. 2).
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
The 1979 piece (to be reconstructed; see fig. 3) consists of 64 such cubes (64 * 2 half cubes), which are represented in a 8x8 matrix.
The Processing sketch
The final Processing sketch was designed to create a new iteration of cubes every time it ran. For a description of the whole process, see the documentation here (in German).
