Thursday, May 9, 2013

Final #1: Flash/Powerbullet .swf Files



File 4

File 2

File 1

File 3
In this exercise I worked using a software called PowerBullet. In this software I used images and effects to create a flash style display that can be uploaded online. This is a final exercise from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc.

Final #4; High Resolution Avatar




These screenshots display the high resolutino avatar that I created using MakeHuman, a 3D modeling software. The software allows you to customize your avatar in many ways. You can edit the large features of your avatar, like torso and arm structure. You can also edit the small features of your avatar like slight facial details. This is a final exercise from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc.

Final #3: Building Project




These are screenshots of the house I created in CloudParty. The house has three specific rooms; a dining room, bedroom, and a living room. This is a final exercise from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc.

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Final #2: Six Monocular Depth Cues

These lights are an example of a size difference monocular cue. The farther away the lights are, the smaller they appear to be. This type of monocular cue is very similar to a linear monocular cue because the lines of the lights line up and fade away into a singe point of perspective.
The brick wall in these photos are an example of a occlusion monocular depth cue. The wall blocks the vision you have of the rest of the room. But, when you move your avatar over the wall shifts and shows the rest of the room. This is just like in the real world and this concept is used in virtual worlds to give them the illusion of three dimensions.

The tree is an example of an atmospheric monocular depth cue. When you are far away from the tree all branches and leafs blend together and it is harder to see the individual leafs. As you get closer to the tree it becomes much easier to see the individual leafs and the over all detail of the tree is greater.


The water flowing in the picture is an example of a monocular depth cue with texture. As the water around the channel the ripple's shadows are represented by the darker shaded areas on the texture making the water look three dimensional. However, if you were to go closer to the texture you could see that the water is actually just a two dimensional image.
These windows represent a linear monocular depth cue. All of the lines that make up the boarder of the top and bottom of the windows are perfectly parallel. But, when you view the windows from the angle, the lines all seem to fade away into one single point in the distance. This is called point perspective and is used by painters, drawers, and virtual world designers to represent a three dimensional space on a two dimensional canvas.
The floor in avaya is an good example of a monocular depth cue involving lighting and shading. The light entering the windows above shines down and and creates lighter spots on the ground where the light directly hits. The darker shaded spots are the areas of the ceiling that do not have windows and the light is not shinning through. 

These screenshots are several examples of the many times of monocular cues that can be found in virtual worlds. Monocular cues are effects used by designers to confuse the human brain into thinking what they're seeing is a three dimension space when what they are actually seeing is colors and angles cleverly placed on a two dimensional canvas. This is a final exercise from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Discovering Computer Graphics. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Class 10 Immersive Education Grid


Here is some of the information about Immersive Education that can be found at http://theeducationgrid.org/

FireFox Failed Experiment

When doing all the experiments in Firefox most of them did work. The only experiment that did not work in Firefox was the Loop Waveform Visualizer. Link to Experiment

Web GL 3D Chrome Experiment 3



In this chrome experiment it generates a geographic location represented by blocks of different heights. You can rotate your mouse to view the landscape from all side and you can also zoom in or out. LINK TO EXPERIMENT!!


Web GL 3D Chrome Experiment 2



In this 3D experiment you have full control over a toaster which contains an infinite amount of toast. You can scroll your mouse around the toaster to view it from all sides. When you click on the toaster the camera view with zoom in and rotate around the toaster for a few seconds. After the few seconds the camera pans out and the toast ejects some fresh toast. LINK TO EXPERIMENT!

Web GL 3D Chrome Experiment 1


This is the 3D Graphing experiment. This website creates three dimensional graphs of mathematical functions. Once the function is graphed you can use your mouse to spin the image and view the graph from every angle. You can also input your own functions and adjust the default functions and supershapes. LINK TO EXPERIMENT!   


Thursday, April 4, 2013

Assignment #4



For assignment 4 we had to do the same things in the previous assignments but they all had to be on  one  powerbullet  file in multiple layers. So I did the same exact thing as the last 3 exercises but instead of having them be individual files, they were all on the same file but in different layers.

Class 8 Assignment 3




https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=547B97CEE7808CC4!125&authkey=!ADz-awT-XzUTAps
In this exercise I uploaded an image showing the difference between vector and bitmap graphics. I resized the image so it is much larger. I also made the background red. For the effect I had the image come into picture horizontally.

Class 8, Assignment 2




https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=547B97CEE7808CC4!124&authkey=!ACNwv9smzTHKz-o
Using Powerbullet I changed the background to a lime green color. In front of that I added an oval. I then re-sized the  oval much larger and made it blue with a red outline

Class 8, Assignment 1



https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=547B97CEE7808CC4!123&authkey=!AFNKA9eQCkjsdg0
For this assignment I chose to use a blue background. I enlarged my name and change the font and color to pink. For the effect I had my name fade into the screen 

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Class 7 Assignments

Scaled down image

Original Image
Strokes

Paste Into


Transparency

Text