Jonty Hurwitz

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Jonty Hurwitz (born September 2, 1969 in Johannesburg ) is a British sculptor and engineer , known for anamorphic sculptures and the smallest three-dimensional representation of the human body.

Life

Hurwitz was born in South Africa as the son of the hotelier Selwin Hurwitz and the teacher Marcia, née Berger. He spent his childhood in various small-town South African hotels. From 1989 to 1993, Hurwitz studied electrical engineering with a focus on signal processing at the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. He then moved to the research group of Michael Inggs at the University of Cape Town as a research assistant and published a paper on pattern recognition on radar .

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Hurwitz creates sculptures by 3D printing in catoptric (mirrored) or oblique (perspective) anamorphosis , which are calculated with an algorithm based on the circle number Pi . In 2014 he produced in cooperation with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the Weizmann Institute of multiphoton lithography and photogrammetry , the smallest three-dimensional representation of the human form.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tracks: Jonty Hurwitz ( Memento of the original from February 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on arte on June 29, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arte.tv
  2. ^ Artist Creates Sculptures So Tiny They Can't Be Seen By The Human Eye . Huffington Post, Leigh Weingus. November 14, 2014. Retrieved February 17, 2015.
  3. ↑ MR Inggs, JB Hurwitz, A. Langman: Synthetic Range Profile Measurements of Aircraft. In: COMSIG. ieeexplore.ieee.org, September 1993, pp. 204-209 , accessed February 17, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Anamorphic Sculptures . Ignorant. January 13, 2013. Accessed February 17, 2015.
  5. ↑ Anamorphic sculptures by Jonty Hurwitz . Design boom. January 21, 2013. Retrieved February 17, 2015.
  6. ↑ Kiss of chytrid: Anamorphic art by Jonty Hurwitz . Urban Ghost Media. February 5, 2013. Retrieved February 17, 2015.
  7. ^ Trust . Chemical & Engineering News . December 16, 2014. Retrieved February 17, 2015.
  8. ^ Enter the Photo Studios of the 21st Century . All3DP. December 29, 2014. Retrieved February 17, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Hurwitz, Jonty
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sculptor and engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd September 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Johannesburg