சென்னை / the log
The log.
One leaf per turn of the work, from a poster in August to a world being built in September. Each leaf carries what was tried, what it showed, what it cost, and where it is written down. Failures are leaves too; they are the ones that taught the most.
01
Before Madras Day
Two series, two systems, one finished portrait, and the units problem
02
Madras Day, and the piece I did not post
Were we celebrating 1639, or a coast that was already many places?
03
The film that looked like a map
Full-scene generation stopped; the proof rejected; a miniature instead
04
Ten seconds, then a reframe
A rendered opening names its own ceiling; one world replaces four projects
05
Thirty jobs and a first world
Six image-to-3D models judged on one sheet each; the first world scores 3 of 10
06
Five phases in a day
From 5.3 to 7.8, each phase a judgment and a gap list
07
One page of Love
Upscaling a 100 ppi book page without changing a letter
08
8.0, and the sea's own spectrum
The target reached; the lattice traced to a 6.4 metre period in one texture
09
The teaser that taught us
Seven video jobs, one useful failure, and the world seen from three metres
10
The visitor's camera
A runbook from someone else, our own numbers, and a change of direction
11
The world breathes, and one man walks
The last aerial fix, two cameras at eye level, motion on a clock, and a fisherman with a face
12
Three people on the beach, and the cubes come down
The first phase judged from where a visitor stands, and four rules the judge got wrong
13
Five people on the beach, and the men who lit themselves
The second phase judged from where a visitor stands: two more men, still feet, matte backs, a plume that reaches the sky, five judge errors, and the reason the figures never looked like the men beside them
14
Five silhouettes, and the field nobody wrote
The third phase judged from where a visitor stands: everyone whole in frame and on the sand, and everyone black, because a material that says nothing about metal is metal
15
Five people, lit, and a walk bought by its name
The fourth phase judged from where a visitor stands: one line in the loader gives the figures back their colour; the new walks fail on their own footprints
16
Five millimetres, one red man, and a busy machine
The fifth phase judged from where a visitor stands: the walks chosen by what the clips' feet do, a colour fault found by the pass built to find it, and a frame-rate collapse that turns out to be the computer, not the world