33/5. Pages of code

I have really neglected the other project, its just been all go with the other scene and i would rather have that one really nice and polished. However, this project is really important as it is one of the other types of metaphor. The continental drift metaphor is more abstract and draws upon natural commonalties such as the heat inside the globe to the heat in side the earth. This project on the other hand is about taking a well understood model and projecting that onto something very complex in a bit to rationalise it with something more relatable 

So i have been diligently looking into how genetics work and using an extract from a book by Richard Dawkins have been formulating a way to best relay the genetics within a single cell

Below are pages for the rigged book i acquired .

Some letters are backwards as they appear on the mesh on the reverse page. 

As seen in the blue sketch book development the books are the chromosomes, within the books are chapters - these are the genes- then within the genes are the amino acids or the words on the page. 

see sounds simple, but it really was a nightmare to figure out. 

So for an example, you take one of the red books off the shelf, lets say volume 10 and open it to chapter 6 and read the page finding out its about blue eyes. 

What you are really doing it selecting chromosome 10 from mothers genetic material looking at a segment of the DNA within the material that makes up a gene. Within that you are then looking at some of the genetic coding that denotes the amino acids that are required to make blues eyes.

Breaking that down 

cell/embryo - bookcase

shelves - nucleus

books - chromosomes

All pages together - DNA

chapters - genes 

words - amino acids

Maybe i would of taken biology if it was put like that, but it was very hard to get my head round and write that down with trust in what i was saying was right. Safe to say i never did take biology.

So putting that into a practical input i made the final pages for the rig.

I wanted there to be coded pages with the T-A G-C (denote the amino acids needed) to be on the pages, then it changes just to say what they would make, so in this case blue.

So then it reads chapter 6, eye colour - blue. 

I then wanted the blue fathers book of the same volume as the mothers to come in beside it for comparison, it would open to chapter 6 as well but the code this time would denote brown eyes.
with blue being recessive, the child would then have brown eyes from its father. 

phew. I know some visuals would help to explain that bit, so i hope to get them up in the next few posts. I really want to have the animation at least blocked out for submission as i think that it works so well and is really backing up my project. 

right page texture

left page fathers eye colour

stacks of pages for both books

new book (newer genetic material) mother

new book (newer genetic material) father

Old book mesh (older genetic material ) father

Old book mesh (older genetic material ) mother

right page fathers eye colour

Front of book and main animated book for the mother

Mothers eye colour right page

Mothers eye colour left page

coded pages that appear before the coloured pages containing the amino acid codes

The main gold here was to keep it as true to genetics as i could but still getting those visual ques in so the viewer can try merge the model of the bookcase and associate it with the complex genetic information. For examples having the chromosomes on the spine of the books spines relates it more to picking a singular chromosome out of the 46 pairs and looking inside. vu just having them as books