Dissolution

How could the credits stay readable from several sides of the Voxon display?

The Voxon's best resolution was in one horizontal plane. A name lying flat could be sharp. As soon as I moved it upward it began to come apart. I made the credits into geometry in Blender and went through a lot of ways of arranging them: radial, pinwheel, boomerang, column, something like an obelisk. One test showed me that the display's clipping boundaries were very clean. I built a pylon of extruded names and pushed it through the top of the volume, so the display only showed a thin section of the letters. That slice held together much better. The remaining tests were about how the pylon should move and look: rotation, taper, ambient occlusion, dark stripes, and then stranger fluted and spiral shapes.

Each name appeared as a crisp section through the pylon. People standing on several sides of the display could read it without assigning one side as the front.

How could I give the volumetric frame the small irregularities of a handheld camera?

I used a mobile phone as both a tracked controller and a preview for Blender. Moving it through the room let me record the kind of camera gesture I wanted, then apply that motion to the Voxon volume around the sculpture. I repeated the experiment in a VR headset so I could record and inspect the movement from inside the setup. I also animated the scale of the volume. As it grew or contracted, its boundaries passed through different parts of Laocoön and His Sons.

The physical display stayed in place. The recorded gesture changed which section of the sculpture occupied it, while scale changes made limbs and figures appear or disappear at the volume's boundary.