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Exploration Without Boundaries

Virtual Voyages into Virtual Landscapes

Hilary Rhodes

Exploration Without Boundaries invites you on a journey of reflection and fantasy through 48 digital landscapes - dreamlike yet reminiscent of familiar places.

About this Title

Exploration Without Boundaries invites you on a journey of reflection and fantasy through 48 digital landscapes - dreamlike yet reminiscent of familiar places. Hilary Rhodes has created an evocative place that is truly not of this world. Share her vision through environments that are non-photographic and totally invented, created pixel by pixel via fractal texture synthesis. Each environment features background music generated from the profiles of the landforms using special synaesthetic software.

Explore the virtual environments of this unique package in three different ways:
- browse the pages of the beautifully produced full colour book
- watch the videos included on the accompanying disk
- engage with the interactive DVD

The interactive DVD offers elements of fascination and puzzlement while navigating around and between the landscapes.

The purpose of Exploration Without Boundaries is not arrival, but the navigation of a challenging landscape and the traveller's place in space.

See examples of Hilary’s work at:

www.apple.com

homepage.mac.com

members.optushome.com.au

About the Author

Dr Hilary Rhodes has worked as a drafter, technical illustrator, artist and graphic designer both overseas and in Australia. She teaches graphic design and multimedia at Western Sydney Institute of Technology.

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978-0-522-85203-5