ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a second category of tools and techniques, understood through a series of scaled physical tests that speculate upon new camera-responsive modes of design intervention. The tests reveal how building design can modify various digital camera protocols by exploiting the technical pathways of procedures relating to an image's colour composition, artefact production and attention tracking. As the first of a series of three chapters addressing these pathways, the chapter demonstrates the role colour plays in digital geometry's capacity to be operative across an infinite range of scales and assembled into highly controllable and repeatable pixel patterns. It reveals how colour links those assemblies to visual effects and perceptual responses that disrupt any predetermined or promotional urban visual narrative.
