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July 16, 2018 10:07 AM

Some physically pixelated (voxelated?) foodstuffs from Yuni Yoshida, art director:
- Apple and banana.
- Pineapple.
- Hamburger.
Also tilings and textures and patterns and tilings. [via kottke, c/o mltshp.]
posted by cortex (14 comments total)

Delightful!
posted by a snickering nuthatch at 10:22 AM on July 16, 2018

I think it's important to note that these are "pixelated" in the real world, not digitally.
posted by dobbs at 10:22 AM on July 16, 2018 [1 favorite]

Her work gives me the heebie-jeebies, but in a "I can't stop looking at it - give me more weirdness!" way. Good find, thanks for posting!
posted by Fig at 10:23 AM on July 16, 2018 [1 favorite]

Good call, dobbs! I left a word out of my framing originally, have contacted myself to have it amended.
posted by cortex at 10:25 AM on July 16, 2018 [2 favorites]

Is anyone else seeing their browser history get whacked clicking on the first link?
posted by tommasz at 10:38 AM on July 16, 2018

Food porn, censored.
posted by The otter lady at 10:53 AM on July 16, 2018

These make my eyes hurt in that "all the teeny tiny muscles are tweaking to find the right focus" way. So much of vision is learned, I wonder if there's a connection between the two.

Anyway. Great!
posted by notyou at 10:55 AM on July 16, 2018 [1 favorite]

So compelling, and feels weirdly naughty. I was looking over my shoulder at work.
posted by Pfardentrott at 11:48 AM on July 16, 2018 [1 favorite]

I think it's important to note that these are "pixelated" in the real world, not digitally.

It took me a bit to figure this out. I think I've been watching too much hentai.
posted by Fizz at 4:01 PM on July 16, 2018

If only the pixels could have all come from the title foods
posted by Flashman at 6:32 PM on July 16, 2018

Why don’t the pixel bits cast shadows (for the most part)?
posted by dywypi at 3:09 AM on July 17, 2018

I like these, but I kinda want them to be more...accurate? Like... the pixelated part of the burger doesn't really match what it would look like if digitally pixellated.

Firefox is telling me neither pixelated nor pixellated is the correct spelling, so I left both.

pixxelated pixelatted pixellatted ppixxellattedd

Hm nope.
posted by Grither at 7:55 AM on July 17, 2018

Fairly tight overhead spotlighting where the light source is slightly nearer to the plane of the camera than the subject is. That means the shadows are gonna fall at a shallow diagonal angle pushing deeper into the frame as it travels down.

Which, for the rounder bodies of the original foods, allows shadow to pool in front and beneath because the protruding forward-most curves of the fruits and burger all recede at a much steeper angle deeper into the frame to where they contact the surface.

But for the cubes of material, there's no space underneath; the light is illuminating a flat front edge, and without a gap between some protruding bit and the surface of the photo stage, there's nowhere for a shadow to pool. If someone shot that setup from the side, you'd see shadows behind the cubes, but the way its framed they're nearly entirely occluded by the cubes themselves.
posted by cortex at 7:56 AM on July 17, 2018

I love this photo of an “apple”
posted by Weeping_angel at 4:12 PM on July 17, 2018